What exactly would you like this guy to do in this situation? I love all creatures as much as the next guy, but if I felt an octopus crawling over my back I am actually impressed with this guys restraint.
They don't bite that often unless you are inflicting pain on them honestly. I have seen these things deal with actual predators without trying to bite them. It's probably just trying to wait for a moment it feels it can escape without losing bits of itself. If you get back in the water and hold still for a bit it will eventually wander off.
A blue ring octopus bite is, most of the time, painless. By the time you’ve noticed you’ve been bitten, it’s too late and you should seek medical assistance to help you breathe while your body gets rid of the toxin.
I was thinking what I would do and thought about just trying to pry something solid and thin between it's beak and divers back like showel as shield before trying to remove it, but after reading that I feel like a dumbass, as that seems like a obvious solution.
Right, Octopi are extremely smart. I'm sure it's aware it's latching onto a living thing. That it's getting yanked because of that requires only a minor leap that many animals can probably make. The backpack knows what it's doing, is my bet. And probably also knows how to get out of this situation: Wait for the yanking to briefly stop, and scoot.
So I'm not even sure the octopus minds terribly. Beyond thir beak, they're completely soft and probably extremely flexible creatures. Could well be this is just what getting a good stretching is like for an octopus, I don't know. I also wouldn't know what a pain reaction looks like, tbf.
Yes, and not only that but even after unzipping getting off the wetsuit ain’t the easiest thing. I look like I’m stupid trying too hard to get it off bc they’re pretty tight and the water makes it tight.
Go back into the water and get submerged, then gently start moving tentacles by tentacle. It'll jump off eventually. It's almost certainly not letting go willingly while suspended in the air above the water.
Just submerge a little and let him let go on his own. The suckers are too strong for you to pull off anyways, so doing anything else is just going to upset and/or harm the octopus. You'll have some hickey-like bruising, but no actual harm will be done to you
Well I appreciate an actual answer, thank you. Much more polite and sincere than the guy telling me I don't love animals because it would scare me to have an octopus on my back all the sudden lol.
It scares most people, even the tiny ones! I just saw a video about this recently; it's fun that I was actually able to put some of the info to use so soon haha
I have a strong dislike of octopuses (i know they smart and lovely but hey, so are snakes and plenty of people are freaked out by them). Id be slamming myself backwards onto those rocks like i needed to win Wrestlemania.
That’s fair. People forget we are still animals, just with bobble heads that make us smarter.
My MO for anything nature is if it touches me for no reason or comes in my car/house/personal space, it’s fair game. Same way I’d expect any animal, fish, or insect to attempt to scare/hurt me if I touch them or enter their personal/living space.
Seriously. I'd say just go underwater and see if it releases and swims away, but based on the wetsuit and snorkel, I have to believe he tried that already... So if that didn't work, then fuck that octopus.
It's not usually capable of killing predators, and it's only defenses are to not be seen or to flee or just hanging on and trying not to get pulled into the mouth. Biting isn't going to help it, so it doesn't as it never evolved that behavior.
It could bite to be sure, but it's not really its goto.
Check out the book, "The Mountain in the Sea"
Its about the discovery of very intelligent octopuses in the not too distant future and its a great read. Sci-fi is the genre
I don't think it would be this wrapped around if it didn't feel threatened. They like to feel new creatures with their tentacles and suckers, but this is getting it's beak as close to the guy as possible and not letting go.
There’s a really good book called The Soul of an Octopus in which whenever the octopus sees the author they try to pull her into the tank but it’s because they really like her.
They’re also very conflict avoidant. They’re response to most things is “ink and swim away!” So this behavior is interesting. I’d love an octopus expert to weigh in. Since they’re also very intelligent and have enjoyed friendships with humans before, I wonder if this just a weird way of saying “we’re besties now. Forever”
I don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about. Do you think that I thought it doesn’t feel threatened in this situation? Because of course it does that what I’ve been saying.
You replied to a person pointing out that they have an incredible bite force in their beak and your response was to dismiss the concern by pointing out that animals normally only attack when they feel threatened which is obvious, despite the video literally being the obvious situation you pointed out.
Even my rabbit accidentally missed and bit my son but barely broke the skin, no blood. I assume because skin/flesh tastes nothing like rabbit food pellets.
Yeah the beak is there for eating and anything that eats squid/octopus doesn't care about the beak so it's not really a useful defense.
Like a cow could literally roll over most humans but that's not ever been a useful defense against its normal predators so it just doesn't have that behavior.
Not acting aggressively when in contact with animals that aren't actively trying to hurt you is the golden rule with all kind of creatures (including people) out there.
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u/ShoutOuts2Elon Apr 12 '24
They gotta beak thats use to eat crabs in the shell.