Octopus Escapes - Locked in a Lantern - Episode 1

[@kmwwrench]

I really felt sorry for him. My heart rate was going up as he seemed to be struggling. Poor guy. His color changing after the escape seemed like "Note to self: don't let yourself get trapped in a lantern again."

[@gitguuchisidetweedledeeand7200]

Who are you to know what they think? Are you a marine biologist?

[@gigisdiamonds]

I agree with you. We don’t have to be a marine biologist to see when an animal is under stress..

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Aw, poor baby must have been frustrated. You did give him a reward right? Also, did you try him again later to see if he remembered the solution?

[@mlareine327]

That flash of color seemed to be the equivalent to a middle finger.

[@annehaight9963]

Yeah I clearly heard "You asshole" in that color flash.

[@existentialerasure]

I love their unemotional, logic driven eyes. That said, somewhere down the line, he's getting some payback...count on it.

[@knowyourlove5613]

Lol. That’s what I was thinking. Whatever Karen put him in there, he’s going to mess with her for the rest of his life. 😉

[@vin2216]

Not sure about that, I'm sure I can see some smug happiness in those colours! Clever, beautiful boy 😍😍😍

[@treborironwolfe978]

The more I watch these critters the more soul I see in them. And, I see more intelligence than many humans I know.

[@Deckinickinic]

That Octopus looks so pleased with itself after solving the problem xD

[@vikkitaylor5469]

All I could think was, "Let him out!!" Success!

[@gojiberry7201]

When he changed colors right after getting out, do you think it was because he was upset, or feeling victorious, or anything like that?

[@minxjohannson2036]

I would love to know that as well!!

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

@@minxjohannson2036 octopus style victory dance for all its homies stuck in the deep ocean scavenging for food still!😆👊lmao

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

Octopus-style victory dance!!😆lol

[@minxjohannson2036]

@@dionnedunsmore9996 octopus-style victory dance! I love that! 🐙

[@VeryEvilGM]

Octopus: Hey, I'd like to exchange few words...

[@thepreschooltest]

I wonder if you do something ahead of time showing how the latch mechanism works it it would reduce the time. Like maybe a different setting where a treat is placed inside and he figures out how to open it then when placed inside himself he remembers and escapes more quickly? Or even trained to open various latches one a wall, each opens a door to a treat, so he is basing decisions on past experience?

[@icysteve46]

He comes out and starts strobing. Like "who put me in there? Come on, bring it" LMAO

[@zebra3stripes]

So this is how humans have felt for the last five months.

[@aidanmcferris3004]

Try thousands of years!

[@julie6092]

Ha! So true 😋

[@mookyo9602]

She is one kickass octopus! She was so proud she was flashing!! Love this channel🐙💜💜

[@catherinebreitfeller669]

Awesome 😎

[@patty7791]

Their intelligence is overwhelming... Makes them very personable,,, Watched documentary in Alaska where they fished for thirty pounds of octopus... Couldn’t get to my remote control to delete show fast enough. In other words, just LOVE them! Thank you for helping to educate me! Just one ☝️ question.... Could you guys eat octopus?

[@DaffneyDalilah]

Patty - I don’t think I could eat an octopus. #1 because it doesn’t look tasty #2 It’s probably smarter than me

[@mortuaryartist]

Imagine how awesome it would be to have a tank with an octopus in your house. The octo kid is a genius.

[@2manybooks2littletime25]

There's one scientist who does. His teenage daughter cares for it. It's always trying to splash water on her after it feels her dry arms as if to save her from a terrible death! The video is somewhere on KZbin. I wish that I remembered the name.

[@nachannachle2706]

I absolutely LOVE how methodical and persistent Octopi are: they won't give up until they have explored ALL OPTIONS to find a solution.

[@vaszgul736]

that little color flash of victory tho

[@electacute9254]

Smarty!

[@N3KO_79]

Aww after escaped he looks so exhausted 😔. Anyway he is so cute ❤️❤️❤️.

[@jennyaldrich7456]

Poor sweet fella he might have been scared who knows but I'm glad he's ok. He's very smart.

[@heatherjones6647]

What no reward? Would help calm him down, maybe, and motivate him for the future challenges.

[@aidanmcferris3004]

He actually looked like he was gloating when he got out! LOL P.S. Unlike others, I feel as tho they enjoy using their noggins to figure things out. I think they like the challenge!

[@dragjamon]

He probably liked the challenge

[@Nosaj8769]

Did anyone notice that octolabs logo is an octopus eye?

[@rhijulbec1]

That octopus has about 7:30 minutes more patience than do I! Well done.

[@HelloKitty-ed5cy]

That color flashing when he got out was amazing. I hope that's not a sign of stress tho? Anyway, we all knew he was going to escape, it was just a matter of how long it took. Clever creature, hope he got a treat. 😊🐙

[@annehaight9963]

I read it as the octopus saying "dickhead!" to the lab staff.

[@shelleynobleart]

I hate to see the animal stressed like this. And it may have harmed itself in desperation to squeeze through even as an invertebrate.

[@patriciaporter5078]

Was the octopus stressed - I was, watching it.

[@Shaden0040]

Poor thing looked like it was panicking.

[@NewMessage]

Apt that it was locked in a lantern.. 'cause it's pretty bright!

[@nachannachle2706]

:)

[@rodee1671]

Being trapped is frightening. Mean to stress them like this. Please give them more space next time.

[@jeffjames4064]

He did seem to display a victory sign, and maybe a little octopus dance.

[@SecretEyeSpot]

that moment of yaay when he escapes lol

[@mfollett3613]

I'd like to see an octopus reacting to a selection of Octopus sized wavy mirrors from a "Hall of Mirrors".

[@nannettecouch1945]

Fascinating to watch but seems so cruel, inflicting unnecessary stress on this creature.

[@susanscovill6817]

I’m not sure how I felt about this one. I don’t like watching animals in distress or panicked. Those suction cups extended and open reminded me of hands reaching out begging for help. It took quite a while to unlatch the door and I think it happened by accident. Not thought out as we usually see when they check things out then plan an action. Why did I keep watching? Because I was sure it would escape but I didn’t think or maybe I hoped it wouldn’t take this long. Please guys no more Houdini stuff. I love watching them think things out. PS did those colour changes indicate he was pissed? Did he just flip you the bird on my behalf?

[@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39]

Just one question: Why put this little creature through the stress of this experience, when it's already proven that they're able to escape just about anything, given time? We know that they're smarter than the average pollute-tician. It looks terribly stressed out, after its escape. I don't understand what this proves.

[@BobT36]

I'd let the Octopus experts decide that. I'm sure they'll not want to stress the creatures to the point of harm.

[@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39]

@@BobT36 Thanks, bro'. I'm an octophile-- Oh, crap. That word could be misinterpreted 😕by some folks unfamiliar with the idiom... ANYWAY--I L💓VE them thurr lil' critters, & I'mo' call a bud @ Wake Forest University, & see if she can interpret the dealio up in heah...or...sumpn.😲 If I find out anything of note, I'll let you know. Thanks again!!! 🖖🏿🐙✌🏽

[@BobT36]

@@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39 No problemo. There was an obvious visible reaction after it got out. I wonder if that was stress, anger / frustration "Don't do that to me again!" or celebration. It didn't seem to have that same reaction when inside though so if it was negative, I presume it wasn't TOO stressed at the time. I'm sure (hope!) that the organisers would cancel the experiment if it looked to be harming the creature. They seem to know what they're doing and look out for the health of the Octopus, such as when people delivered rescued ones to them in bad conditions etc.

[@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39]

@@BobT36 Let's hope...at least this one probably WON'T wind up in the middle of a bacon/octopus/lettuce/tomato/cracked pepper/sea salt sandwich...🤪... I'm waiting on a call back from my former sea-research-specialist friend, & will pass on any enlightenment offered.

[@bionic-tale4313]

Looks like the octopus is trying to escape the small lantern prison.

[@prettyp42]

How long were you planning to keep him in there?? This was stressful to watch lol. Poor guy seemed out of breath. 😪

[@richardtodd6843]

How did you get him in there in the first place? Get him drunk?

[@melissasalasblair5273]

🐙🌌

[@womanofsubstance8735]

So did he just flip you off right after he got out of the lantern? Lol

[@kevinstill1069]

No doubt in my mind that our friend would figure it out.

[@dawnharley9889]

I don't like this one his white colour shows he was Scared it's only when he gets out the colour changes back to brown wich means he's feeling comfortable and you didn't even give him a reward of a crab very disappointed with this video

[@marounazou8198]

I don't think he was scared...It seems to me like he was just trying to camouflage himself by blending in with the white color of the tile...

[@dawnharley9889]

@@marounazou8198 maybe but when they show white it means they are scared and he gets whiter as time goes on its only when he gets out his colour changes back to brown and if he was trying to blend in then he'd have stayed the same colour and they would all be white in other videos but they are always brown so I think it's very unlikely he was blending read up what it means when a 🐙 goes white its definitely fear

[@sazikanebaldimor2386]

Hell i wonder how they managed to get the octopus into that latern... and the color shift at the end like he was glad he was out and releasing tension.. and as if he was saying "i dare you try that again"

[@carrollkuemper]

I kind of expected them to squeeze out between the bars.

[@infallibleblue]

I did not like this one either. Too much like Saw or stressful. Maybe should if shown it a solution before hand or put food in it to solve instead of having it be the prisoner.

[@gwynethwelch791]

How did the octopus get trapped in the lantern in the first place?

[@DaffneyDalilah]

Walking home drunk maybe? Imagine waking up trapped in a lantern in the morning...lol 😂

[@nkf83]

you can put Alaska crab outside lantern. See how octopus react

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

Im SO GLAD u all posted the exact time on the screen that it took this guy/girl to unlock itself. Smdh just imagine the BS ppl woulda come up with if u hadnt🤬 they can come up w some mucked up shit! So, im glad u all posted the time. CYA but uht these days

[@updated5709]

This seems kind of cruel. Like there was no incentive for the octopus to get out of the lantern other than the fact that it was trapped and didn't yet know it could get out.

[@christina1wilson]

so, where's his crab?

[@tylerstreet8614]

How did you get it in the lantern??

[@tats763]

I wonder if they look forward to these challenges, so they are stimulated and get to figure things out.

[@SeraphicDeur]

If I were an octopus it'd only take me 6 minutes to escape smh

[@keatonblackman472]

Freedom! 2:18

[@lauriedmills7581]

He seemed scared and unsettled. Very smart, yes, but didn't like that entrapment one bit.

[@ld8495]

I love your videos! Specially the ones that explains octopus behavior. What did the color change mean?

[@helgafalckenberg6635]

Seems he is very pissed about that task.... (Color changing after the escape)

[@sukie584]

aw, he seemed exhausted at the end.. can the enclosures be larger so not so claustrophobic for him? I was getting anxious just watching him in that small area... but clearly, very clever...

[@jennyaldrich7456]

Does anyone know where this place is at? And wonder if anyone could go see him. Probably not though.

[@webangel1913]

Soooo how did you put the octopus in the lantern 🤔

[@erbro]

I too would prefer to see him get into the lantern to obtain a reward rather than struggle to get out of it. I imagine in the wild octopuses don't get trapped in a space all that often unless humans are involved, so I kinda fail to see what this experiment proves.

[@Xani13]

2:34 - Bitch, please...

[@jackiefraser-easton571]

I wonder how they got him in there.

[@thekingofjesters2368]

Poor thing looks sad

[@miragetheshadow]

Do the Octopuses know their names?

[@camerondrew9402]

Would love to know how fast the second time was!

[@HaciendoAmigos]

¿Qué piensan los de Peta de esto? ¿Ringo Starr se ha pronunciado ya?

[@inadawardlaw7288]

It looks stressed tf out 😢

[@DaffneyDalilah]

A new octopus escape challenge series?! A new episode each Friday?!! Weekends just got a little more amazing!!! I look forward to seeing them all showing off their escape skills 😃

[@amypatton6730]

I hope he's not Clostrophobic

[@melindab8249]

I think he was a bit panicked. Just after he got out him sat there and calmed himself down a bit. When doing some or all of these tests, show & give immediate reward. Don't give grocery store dead food, give them something they would normally eat in the wild or stop having them as 'pets'. It is really bullying behavior. I think they are very interesting and have enjoyed watching to a degree, but some exercises seem to be cruel. (Even just plain mean) you will get better performance if you get smarter about your 'test' and give well deserved rewards

[@americanjedi5952]

Would he get stupid if fluoride is added to the water, or just fail to know himself as an octopus?

[@agnes998]

I think you should show the octopus what the options are first.

[@karenahmed4722]

This was plain mean. Don't do it again!

[@lindak8664]

I didn’t like this one. He seemed distressed to me.

[@susanfox6666]

Poor little one. He seemed panicked, but when he got out, it was as if he collapsed from desperation. He looked like he was breathing hard from the ordeal until he was able to get up. I very much enjoy your videos, but when they appear to be afraid, it's not enjoyable. Sorry.

[@bmh7488]

Don't like this experiment.

[@sylviastallings6006]

He looks really distressed. I don’t like this.

[@Tovah-qv7od]

For me it was very hard to watch him struggle to get out. While inside he seemed panicked. When he finally got out, I felt he was angry. I've enjoy many of your videos but I strongly disliked this one.

[@angeliner59]

Am not sure but I think when an octopus turns white he's very angry. Seems about right looking at the video. Would like to see a repeat after one month and see if he gets out faster.