Big Oof

Octopuses are going to kill us all someday

My friend who worked at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska had a similar story.  Rare fish were disappearing, they suspected theft, and so set up a camera. An octopus was unlocking the top of its tank, walking across the suspended walkway, unlocking the other tank, eating his fill, re-locking the other tank, then re-locking its own tank.

I can’t remember what zoo this happened at, but there was another octopus somewhere who was unscrewing a water valve in the room where its tank was located and routinely flooding the place. The staffers had no idea what it was until they filmed the octopus caught in the act.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! But, sir, it has already released itself!

My dad worked in a lab and one of the rooms had a tank with an octopus in it. If they didn’t go play with the octopus he got bored and would climb out of his tank and steal the paperwork off the desks, and drag stuff into his tank to let the scientists know he was upset with them.

Octopi: aquatic cats.

There’s also been a case of one hunting sharks in the same tank. Octopi are the assholes of the sea.

I love them so much.

You CAN Miette?! You put her in the jar like the peanut butter?! Oh! OH! Davy Jones’ Locker for the researcher! Davy Jones’ Locker for One Thousand Years!

no, no, this is perfect