One kind of animal that I have always been fascinated with is the tentacly-suckery-swimming kind. I'm referring to cephalopods. The most well known kind of cephalopods include squids, cuttlefish, and octopi. I remember snorkeling in Hawaii a few years ago and coming across a small group of squids that seemed to be changing color or refracting light as they swam with their skin looking like it had a weird rippling, marble effect going on. It kind of made my brain hurt. Then, a few days later, I also saw this really tiny dark colored octopus shifting around on the sandy ocean floor. I watched it for a while until somehow it completely disappeared as soon as it came across a piece of black and white coral. It didn't seem like it had to bury it's self in the sand or hide underneath it to conceal it's self. It just literally just disappeared instantaneously. That also made my brain hurt. WHAT IS GOING ON!
so...I found this video...
AND THEN MY BRAIN HURT EVEN MORE
...so I found this other video to explain what just happened. It's crazy.
So... that was informative.
But I think that the whole idea of this is amazing. When you think of a color changing animal, immediately, CHAMELEON pops into your brain. Yet everyone knows what an octopus is but you don't just think "Oh, octopus. Yes. Magical creature of invisibility and mind-blowery."...(or at least I didn't) Now we know :D
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