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Octopus Escape | National Geographic


00:00:00hundreds of years ago sailors thought

00:00:03octopi were sea monsters called devil

00:00:06fish capable of dragging down ships we

00:00:10know they’re not devil fish but we still

00:00:13don’t know everything about them

00:00:14including where they’ll turn out next

00:00:18we’ve created a plexiglass Wonderland

00:00:21just so you can observe how amazing this

00:00:24creature really is the octopus imagine

00:00:29that you’re an octopus like this cyanea

00:00:32here your body has no bones none and

00:00:36what that means is that you’d be able to

00:00:39go almost anywhere you want to even if

00:00:43you happen to be a very large octopus

00:00:46600-pounder say you’d be able to squeeze

00:00:49yourself down so far you could pass

00:00:52through a passageway no larger than a

00:00:55quarter since you don’t have air

00:00:58bladders or gas pockets that would crush

00:01:00or implode at great depths you can live

00:01:02at the very very bottom of the ocean

00:01:05where there’s 15,000 pounds of pressure

00:01:08per square inch a human being exposed to

00:01:11that kind of pressure would implode in a

00:01:13split second can you imagine how much

00:01:16fun it would be to be an octopus you

00:01:19could go anywhere you want slide under a

00:01:22door get into any room you’d have a body

00:01:25unlike any other on earth if you get

00:01:28hungry you could use one of your 240

00:01:31suction cups to grab a meal no matter

00:01:35how many yoga classes a human takes

00:01:37he’ll never be this flexible