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faceless
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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: What the? |
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I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way... |
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6ULDV8
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: Re: What the? |
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| faceless wrote: | | I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way... |
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:13 am Post subject: Re: What the? |
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| 6ULDV8 wrote: | | faceless wrote: | | I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way... |
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden. |
as far as I knew only the cuttlefish could change like that - not octopus... |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: Re: What the? |
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| faceless wrote: | | 6ULDV8 wrote: | | faceless wrote: | | I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way... |
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden. |
as far as I knew only the cuttlefish could change like that - not octopus... |
They're able to also. What's neat is they don't just use it as camo but they also use color changes to communicate with each other. |
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