Octopuses Can Hide Pretty Much Anywhere (How Sea Creatures Will Take Over the World)

Octopuses aren't considered one of the great masterminds of the animal world, but you'd be wrong not to think so. They are intelligent, tenacious and can hide pretty much anywhere they want.
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[@PopeJoeFitz]

Octodad makes so much more sense now

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

Are octodad's kids adopted or was there hentai at play.

[@PinkSwagDemon]

@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 both

[@themanofmemes4911]

@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 yes

[@noisy_killjoy]

wife:Hi hun how was work? octodad: Blub blub blub Wife: Yes perfect human speech

[@ShoeNerd]

@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 when octopus bang they rip off a tentacle to give their mate as their... you know what..., octodad has six tentacles and two kids. The more you know!

[@IamJenJen101]

You forgot to mention the fact that octopuses seem to understand when they've been saved, there are many videos on the internet of rehabilitated octopuses being released into the ocean and chilling around for hours around the person that saved them.

[@ChronoShadow69]

Hah! I've already studied the weakness of the sea, and they shall be UNABLE to survive my assault! *unwraps plastic straws menacingly*

[@zimjim4500]

Your profile picture helps

[@georgebrompton3740]

Your doing a video on a creature capable of camouflage and karl didn't wear a top to mess with the green screen.... Im disappointed in you Karl

[@mattcurtis982]

George Brompton I think he tried to because his shirt was green

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I Løve Jøsh Dun. Nah even the Simpsons shirt didn’t work so there was no chance this one would.

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[@Nananananaheckyes]

Oh no... No one let the crows and octopuses ally... They can never have the sea, land, and sky or it will be o.v.e.r.

[@3ch1dna07]

Sarah, all hail the crow and octopus overlords.🐙

[@azujem5931]

But we have... S P A C E

[@rushthezeppelin]

God help us if this ever happens....

[@rushthezeppelin]

Mejuza the Mage.....they just need to ally with the tardigrades at that point.

[@t84t748748t6]

i would say if the than team up whit the honey badger we wouldnt be safe but the honey badger wouldnt give a F about ruling because the already do

[@meredithr9824]

When you realize you're the apex predator- _But just barely_

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[@burnttoasthair]

@@nealdalton1576 Every time I think I might just start liking his personality he starts waffling and I hate it

[@jimmythompson8919]

@@burnttoasthair honestly the same thing happens to me all the time. Also I’m kinda worried about Carl he needs help with his drinking

[@umoplsdn95]

My girlfriend love octopuses and is terrified of face huggers. Thanks Carl now shes scared of octopuses lol

[@nikitajouchims9584]

🤣👏🏻

[@scholtenfamily]

Octopuses are like really smart water cats that have eight legs.

[@TheTonyMcD]

It depends on the size of their beak. The beak is the only hard part of an octopus. They are also quite aware of this limitation and they know exactly how big their beak is. If they come across a hole too small for their beak, they won't even try to go through it. So it depends on the size of an octopus. The smaller the beak, the smaller hole they can fit through. An octopuses intelligence is even crazier when you consider what they evolved from. Humans evolved from a common primate ancestor between us and Chimps. Even further back was a common ancestor among all primates. Even still further back was a common ancestor between all mammals. So we have quite the pedigree of above average intelligence. Octopuses as well as all other cephalopods evolved from clams. Dumb, brainless clams (they have two ganglia but no centralized brain).... They also have a ganglia, which is like a small brain, at the base of each tentacle. As well as evolve an entire brain from scratch, they also evolved a complete complex eye from scratch.

[@fan9775]

When you have billions of years to evolve, it gets less impressive.

[@johnpeterson4489]

Some marien biologists say that one of the only thing holding the octopus is their lifespan

[@connorb2112]

Dont they also have eyes the same as humans but evolved completely separate from our eyes? I think it has a name but cant remember it. Where evolution comes up with the same solution to 2 different problems

[@vaelophisnyx9873]

a complex eye that, mind you, is better than the human eye (no blind-spot) :)

[@kennethhoopaugh8375]

@@connorb2112 convergent evolution. It's fanfuckintastic!

[@iaiacthulhu5998]

A normally solitary species have recently been shown to build coral cities off the coast of Australia

[@AurelUrban]

One of the things I think about a lot is, how quickly would octopi evolve if they didn't die after having kids. Octopi can learn very quickly, but unfortunately their short life span and the fact they grow up alone without parents, holds them back a LOT. So if they stopped dying after giving birth, or at least lived in communities, they could be a lot smarter. There is one bay where the number of octopi recently increased a lot so the small octopi can actually observe older ones and they learn everything a lot quicker than average octopus. who knows what will be in that bay in hundred years.

[@brokenwave6125]

"Octopi" isn't a word...

[@donnygv27]

I’ve had thissame wonder about dogs (who obviously aren’t as smart as octopuses) But what would happen if dogs were raised by their parents?

[@AurelUrban]

@@donnygv27 you can just look at dogs that are raised by their parents for that :D there are plenty, not everyone gives puppies away, some people keep them

[@diegobrando3409]

Squid and cuttlefish are very adaptable. If humans had this exact same ability they'd be able to adapt to living in a desert to living in a frozen tundra in seconds

[@LilBpixi3]

Starting to think Octodad was a documentary game

[@spaceboyj5626]

When you’re making fun of an octopus and it says “glub glub glub glub” Translation: My seaborne brethren, it’s time to rise up against the surface

[@bulldozer8950]

Woman: “why does this octopus HATE ME!” Octopus: “haha. That’s funny, she’s mad.” Casually eating the crabs in tank next to it.

[@thenatarator7563]

Somewhere, an octopus is watching and planning based on our intelligence. They’re ready, they’re just waiting for the time to strike…

[@vladimira5209]

Check game "octodad" about octopus who disguises himself as human and pretends to be good dad and husband to human family he met.

[@arkhamshade2198]

What do you mean pretend to be a good husband he's an amazing husband who saves his kids and wife before worrying about himself best dad material.

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

@@arkhamshade2198 surprisingly yes.

[@Spthomas47]

"To wander around like a drink toddler with [8] adhesive snakes for arms." Phaque'n ell that's a frightening thought.

[@lazarus9165]

I for one, fully welcome our cephalopod overlords I think it would honestly be an improvement.

[@qualitytbf3483]

If octopuses, crows, and honey badgers United... Humans would have no chance

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QualityBooms 24 debatable

[@philcourteney4328]

Go on then Tommy, respond :) ;)

[@fan9775]

@@Nell-r0se .... heretic!!

[@samgafford2371]

Fuse them all together...

[@danilejai7801]

They still don’t have thumbs.... so....

[@LeafRaider]

Karl is equally as majestic as an octopus

[@corylusbluefox9482]

Corbinater That emoji is a pentapus.

[@LeafRaider]

Corbinater Karl Octowood 🤔

[@losersandwich3712]

Octopi are the most adorable nightmare fuel.

[@augustussutton2379]

Have you ever seen the film Deep Rising if not you should an octopus stalking people on a massive cruise ship

[@McLeiwand]

No way, octopodes are though

[@electricwaster]

No way, octopods are though.

[@brokenwave6125]

"Octopi" isn't a word. You mean octopuses.

[@fistofan3272]

Ok, I literally just realized this channel is fact fiend and not fact fRiend

[@azuregriffin1116]

How...?

[@theycallmerainy2010]

At an Aquarium my sister used to visit a lot there was an octopus that liked to steal things from visitors and one time it had one of the aquarium's laminated maps

[@lilpetz500]

"Octopus recon squad" "Octopuses taking over society" I don't think these guys are ready for Splatoon

[@steamedwam1194]

I didn’t realise how realistic Finding Dory was: The octopus understood that it would eventually be released back into ocean so it kept escaping its tank and trying to catch a ride to Cleveland just to avoid going back.

[@autumn2675]

“There could be 5 of them in this room right now” Someone should really remind him what they’re putting on the green screen

[@richardscales9560]

They've got better eyes than us too

[@josiahb2355]

My dog has learned how to open the front door to our house and we changed the door knob multiple times and she learned how to open all of them. It got to the point where we got a combination lock so we could lock it all the time and she tries to hit the buttons on the door

[@noisy_killjoy]

You sure you don't just own an octopus

[@bulldozer8950]

I’ve heard the only thing holding back octopus is their lifespan: they don’t live long enough to pass on knowledge. If they lived like 40 years instead of 10 they could be as smart as us.

[@edk487]

Think god giant squids aren’t as smart as octopuses.

[@lukasd.4389]

Mike Acker They are, just in a different way. Nautilu(ses?) to, theres quite a few interesting experiments.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Squids have more total brain, however they expend it on physical intelligence rather than sentience and sapience...

[@KonaSoda]

What if giant octopuses exist, but are just too far deep into the ocean.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

KonaSoda they would sacrifice most of their brain power due to their increased size and decreased metabolism and diet. Human brains consume 1/3 of our daily energy usage, a giant octopus would have to be consuming approximately it's bodyweight in food each day to handle a brain comparable in scale to that of a normal octopus and maintain any semblance of thermoregulation, maneuverability, and strength. That would be a small whale per day for something the size of a giant squid...

[@erebusvonmori8050]

The Nautilus is renowned as the idiot of the cephalods. Cuttlefish, squid, octopus, all super genius escape artists... and then there's the nautilus, an animal so dumb it's primary method of figuring out what something is is just trying to eat it, something it even attempts on its own predators.

[@PrismCasillica]

3:20 is that how OctoDad got it's start?

[@darneldonegan530]

I just went on to patreon to try and support the channel to find you decided not to take donations because you are content with the money you are already making. Honestly that just made my day what classy people you guys are delighted for you :)

[@kumqatninja3891]

My mom was scuba diving when I was a toddler, and an octopus attached to her mask and regulator. She said she remained calm and gently pulled it off.

[@Deathington.]

The person who disliked the video should octopissoff

[@bulldozer8950]

It’s octopus that snuck out of their tanks to dislike this. They don’t like him exposing their secrets

[@CarrionCarriesOn]

Octopus are the ninjas of the sea

[@eriley7809]

Imagine an octopus squeezing through your ear canal to your brain... then they can control you.

[@AzureShin4]

Imagine Gustav as a messenger....he will get that message through and anything in his way is fked

[@GameCyborgCh]

watching this with my octopus tank behind me and i live close to the sea

[@scottmitchell2538]

When Clark Kentacles takes off his glasses he becomes...........

[@DolusVulpes]

If Dolphins and Octopi ever achieved sapience, do you think they'd go to war with each other, or would they team up to try to take us down?

[@augustussutton2379]

The Ceph in Crysis

[@DolusVulpes]

Augustus Sutton uh, what? Could you maybe give some context? Because I don't think your comment has any.

[@augustussutton2379]

The Ceph in Crysis are a race of Cephalopod aliens that get about in mechanical suits on land and are based on a series of short stories about the invasion of earth by creatures that evolved on an ocean planet. Crysis is a game series

[@DolusVulpes]

Augustus Sutton thank you for the clarification.

[@DolusVulpes]

Austin C well, that seems like more definitive proof than anything else that they're evolving, then. After all, how could anything besides a sapient creature possibly think that war is a good solution to a problem?

[@SharkBait-eo1yw]

I read a story once where a keeper at an aquarium gave it its food it was shrimp. When the keeper walked away the octopus got out of tank, crawled to the keepers desk and threw two pieces of shrimp at the keeper because those pieces of shrimp were bad. Also I saw I video of two people kayaking and feeding the feels fish and when they ran out a seal there an octopus at one of them

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

4:10 So an octopus is a toddler that has 8 tentacles, can camaflouge itself, and fit through two-inch holes, with a beak and predatory instincts. That's terrifying.

[@chillibomb]

Thank you for the conversation at the end. it gave me an idea for my English exam

[@twopiece5517]

What do you call a scared octopus AN OCTOPUSSY

[@clevername5776]

Bouta smash

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

0:24 A marine biologist had an octopus, and that octopus was once fed a rotten shrimp, then proceeded to unlock its tank from the inside, walk about 50 feet down the hallway, and throw the rotten shrimp at its owner in his office out of spite. Octopodes are very smart.

[@samsherrill6097]

While this may all be quite frightening, an octopus takeover is unlikely, as they are not very social and have short lifespans. A coordinated octopus attack is not something you'd have to worry about.

[@emmaleckmen8608]

"Carl what would you do if you had eight arms?" Carl: *Lenny face*

[@zefellowbud5970]

I want to breed long living octopuses and give them the capabilities to become a civilization

[@ulfricstormcloak9650]

"It wasn't me" - Shagtopus

[@willw1980]

8:49 this reminded me of one of the starwars prequels where the small droids were tearing apart spaceships, or that one episode of the twilight zone with the gremlin on the plane wing.

[@usagitsukino3638]

I recently read a scientific article that claims that octopuses may be extraterrestrial life forms that came to earth through asteroids as eggs, and that's why they are so intelligent and different than other sea creatures.

[@wanpakudanpu]

usagi tsukino lol how "scientific" was that article?

[@Jack-rn3rm]

Glad you're calling them octopuses and not octopi

[@avawyllie7099]

they are both wrong, It's octopodes, although octopuses is the ONLY correct alternative

[@avawyllie7099]

Mr. R_creator well technically it is wrong but a valid substitute, not the absolute correct one though, so using octopodes SHOULD be the only way anyone uses the plural. the real moral of the story is that octopi is wrong in every circumstance

[@Jawz366]

The Moore experience boi Octopuses is the better choice though. This is because when a foreign word is absorbed into the English language, it follows English rules. So, it would add an “es” ending as a standard.

[@brandonsean123]

Dead Inside it’s English dude, it makes no sense

[@darioking303]

Adding to them messing with scuba divers; my dad was a diver in and right out of college. He dove near where an octopus lived. He and divers around him came to know it so sometimes the octopus would come out and play. Some days when the group went to play with it the octopus didn’t want to go out of its home so it would wrap around their respirators until they went back a little bit.

[@maliquedavis7719]

Wonder how cthulhu is gonna feel about us discovering his plans

[@chloeschronicals1020]

Almost at 110k subscribers

[@-nathun8507]

Than there’s Michigan’s Great Lakes, we would totally be dead xD

[@thepolishdestroyeroprpioru9164]

General of the sea: cthulu Part of cthulu's lore is that it has many mental and psychological affects on humans, so it would cause several human people to change sides And those fish people from a different story of H.P lovecraft They have the ability to go on land and not die of no breath

[@diegocelaya1032]

Congrats on getting over 100,000 subscribers!! Been her since 30k

[@adamcrehan8994]

Praise the Octo-Lords

[@stingray1750]

how did you do this whole video without mentioning Octodad xD

[@toffeefuchs]

The discussion of sea creatures taking over reminds me of a book I once read. It is by the German author Franz Schätzing and I think the English title is "the swarm". In short, it is horrifying. And if anyone who actually speaks German would like some nightmares, the audiobook is brilliantly made too.

[@danshrk]

I love it that you always upload when I get home.

[@juniperberryyyy]

So Octodad was just an Octopus who had assumed a father's identity

[@ryanmolyneux3827]

i could be wrong but isnt Octapi plural?

[@Ratcaller]

Thought so as well, but apparently not

[@SianNadine]

Octopuses or octopods it’s a Greek word not Latin

[@brokenwave6125]

Yeah, you're wrong.

[@jonahdelaney893]

That first line is amazing, you are legendary mate

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

13:11 Coconut crabs are terrifying.

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Notification squad, where u at

[@mikemiken1963]

So lame..

[@beckymcdonald9529]

I just discovered you this past week and I'm bingeing

[@Robman92]

Karl, that "Sea creatures taking over the world" idea could be a great water-based alien encounter horror/disaster movie!

[@masterplanet420]

I’ve watched every one of your videos in just a couple days, make more

[@Electrolight_44]

How to (potentially) beat an octopus on land: Flamethrower Gun RPG

[@LittleWerewolfPlushie]

They actually have little hooks in their suction-cups.

[@dehro]

reminds me of that story I read where an octopus was fed a bucket of shrimps, found one that wasn't up to its standards, escaped from his tank, went to the guy who fed him, indignantly tossed said shrimp on the floor and then returned to its tant

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

0:01 I'd become a massage therapist. I already have talent; imagine the prestige I could accomplish with training and SIX ADDITIONAL HANDS.

[@alexanderraes]

A octopus once destroyed a lamp with a jet of water, because the glare of it annoyed it.

[@philcourteney4328]

"wander around like a drunk toddler with adhesive snakes for arms" Best Analogy Ever

[@barror1532]

Beautiful video lads. Brings an inky tear to my eye 👌

[@dameonmgriffin8923]

You are now responsible for the inevitable aquatic invasion Somewhere in an aquarium near the sea there is janitor watching this video and behind him is one is a very ambitious octopus watching,waiting . Learning.

[@gavinshannon4741]

There’s just that one octopus in his tank watching this with his owner and is planning his escape to tell his octopus comrades in the sea

[@baosia]

There was an octopus in a tank that hated a light so it squirted water at the light to short it out. The staff changed the light as often as they could, but the next day the light was broken again. They eventually put up a camera to see what was going on. After they saw the footage they started to turn the light off when they went home, and the light never broke again.

[@theprodigalson4003]

3:10 imagine being the guy that made people realise that that was something they could do

[@stevenrivers173]

When they start talking like that, I wonder what kinds of fever dreams they have

[@a.j.whelpley2551]

Great video as always, I would love to see you do a video on the creature that inspired the face hugger from Aliens as well as face hugger and other Aliens facts and stories. Cheers!

[@victor7480]

I have an actual octopus horror story from a friend. So this friend that was in the military at the time , was with 2 mates ( also from the military )on an island patrolling or something and they decided to go fishing at night with flashlights ( which is illegal cuz fish are like rabbits and they stare at the light ) , so they waited on the dark , put their scuba suits on, took their harpoon guns and went diving . They found at the depth of 3m this huge octopus , it had like mug girth tentacles ( which is weird to find such a huge octopus as that at the depth of 3m). Long story short one of the guys was a genius , gave his gun to his mates , took out his knife and went in for the kill and the octopus grabbed his hand , crawled up his shoulders and arms and took control of his arms and started cutting his belly with the stomach , lucky it only cut the suit and did no actual damage to him.

[@pizzatime8773]

Congrats on 100k

[@shizetocteeo5929]

horror game idea: you're in a room but random stuff is disguised octopuses. if you touch it, it facehugs you, assumes your identity and you lose

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

hey just want to say thanks for showing off my art in the previous video! I am so proud of you guys

[@aukora129]

octopi, squids and cuttlefish have the ability to edit their rna. just imagine an octopus surviving on land for days

[@ianjordan8964]

I'm thinking about what would happen if an octopus learned how to use and got a gun

[@yugenheorte6828]

There's videos of them "thanking" people for rescuing them from getting stranded on land to the point where the person has returned at a later date to walk along the beach and the octopus has come back and joined them in their walk

[@casss2313]

In NZ there is an aquarium and every single time I've gone there they have a different story about how hard this octopus is to keep under control

[@misschief4283]

Octopuses are fucking awesome. Also they have 2 legs and 6 arms. They're also ticklish and playful. They also remember if you do something nice for them like rescue them.

[@VergilTheMenace]

this channel is of the uncommon gems of youtube

[@iSkyn3t]

Great video!

[@acidface_]

I was drinking coffee when you told the teapot story and I had to check my mug before I took another sip

[@amidilley1259]

Rewatching older videos, still as good ❤️

[@NiGHTSnoob]

I now theorize the Typhon in the 2016 Prey are just the cousins of Octopi that discovered space travel during the Cold War. Mimics are so similar to Octopi it's kind of bizarre when you consider they're specifically designed to be paranoia inducing.

[@crono4752]

My favorite story of an octopus is one got a bad fish when it was being fed and climbed out of the tank and got to the keepers office and threw the bad fish in the keepers face in displeasure