We’re Betting You Can’t Spot The Octopus In This Video

February 10, 2015
Los Angeles

Just when we suspicion they couldn’t get any cooler

In a video below, watch what happens when diver Jonathan Gordon tries to check out a seashell off a west seashore of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe. When he’s about 3 feet away, dual large eyes unexpected seem and a neon blue octopus solemnly inflates out of a sea floor. The octopus looks officious other-worldly as it asserts itself

“It took me totally by warn a initial time it happened,” Gordon, who lives in Guadeloupe and studies bacterial pathogens for a French investigate centre CIRAD

“I know that octopuses are masters of camouflage, though I’ve never seen such an extraordinary arrangement in person,” Gordon said.

Octopuses — as good as their cousin cephalopods, squids and cuttlefish — have thousands of cells called chromatophores

The Smithsonian explains it this way

A formidable array of nerves and muscles controls either a weal is stretched or engaged and, when a weal expands, a tone is some-more visible. Besides chromatophores, some cephalopods also have iridophores and leucophores. Iridophores have stacks of reflecting plates that emanate shimmering greens, blues, silvers and golds, while leucophores counterpart behind a colors of a environment, creation a animal reduction conspicuous.

As for a shade of blue in a video, Ernie Sawyer, a comparison aquarist during a Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, told Mental Floss

Nice try, octopus, though it didn’t work.

“I’m certain a arrangement was meant to warn or shock divided predators,” Gordon told HuffPost, “but in my case, it was what was gripping me there. After a third time, we motionless to leave a quadruped in peace.”

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