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Your Shot photographer Hannah Mitchell photographed this large Haeckel’s Jellyfish as it floated across the sun-rays shining through the water’s surface near Adelaide, Australia. Photograph by Hannah Mitchell
Today on the show, we talked about Inky, an octopus that recently escaped from a New Zealand aquarium. We had a hard time believing some of the things we heard about Inky’s “great escape” — so we started to snoop around on octopuses.
Turns out we didn’t know the half of it.
Here are just a few of the craziest things we learned about them:
1. Octopuses can taste with all of their skin, but especially well with their suckers
2. They can squeeze through tiny spaces very easily. A 100-lb. octopus can easily fit through an opening the size of an orange.
3. They’re also crazy strong. A 3-inch-diameter sucker on a giant Pacific octopus can lift 30 pounds.
4. They’re brilliant camouflage artists, and can completely change color in a blink of an eye.
5. On a sad note, some octopuses have been known to eat their own arms. Scientists think it may be a response to stress or some kind of infection.
6. They actually escape from aquariums quite often. Octopuses are very curious animals, and are extremely effective problem-solvers.
They can also open jars. JARS THAT THEY’RE INSIDE OF.
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