[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Freaky Fana Friday, where every Friday we take a little time and explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: We cherish so deeply.
[SPEAKER_01]: So please jump aboard and let's explore the wilds together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Freaky Fana Friday.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's nice to be back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am the Great and Peaceful Mystery, and I'm Jay.
[SPEAKER_02]: In today, we're going to be talking about an octopota.
[SPEAKER_00]: An octopus?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the giant Pacific octopus.
[SPEAKER_00]: specifically that one?
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I specifically.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, I used to say that, specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: The giant Pacific octopus is the largest living marine cephalopod species in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess we're squid and cephalpods.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are, so this is going off of like a true octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's through the light is living on octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're kind of running in a difference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Squid are cephalpods, but they are
[SPEAKER_02]: Not octopods right right or not deck of bodies because it's crustaceans But yeah, they're the largest living octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay They live in temperate waters across Pacific ocean they are highly intelligent animals that live in oxygen or cold oxygen rich waters Add depths from up to 2,000 feet or sorry 2,000 meters which is 6,600 feet and dense within large rocky out crops Okay
[SPEAKER_02]: where no such as us, uh, suitable denser found, they are able to maneuver large boulders and rocks to create their own dens, so they're environment developers, they make their own rocky out crops if they're not available.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: They build an apartment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is almost always where they return and eat their prey they catch.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a kind of an eat thing where everybody listens to the Wednesday show this falls a lot in what the Wednesday stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: So octopus kind of have this a lot of the larger species of octopus kind of have this unique cork where they want to bring their food home to eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bear.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like, I mean, I'm like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but we're also primates mammals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, go through drive through
[SPEAKER_02]: Colt or habitat is cold nutrient rich waters at depths of over 100 meters as well as some shallow tidal pools they can be found in.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can be found anywhere throughout the Pacific.
[SPEAKER_02]: They normally live to be about five in the wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now they average size.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to won't get later on to about their size.
[SPEAKER_02]: It varies heavily.
[SPEAKER_02]: But about 14 feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there average size?
[SPEAKER_02]: With some being well over 20 feet and some even much, much larger than that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Their average weight is about 50 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty big.
[SPEAKER_02]: Went to hear their max sizes.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're normal like they're playing color without their changing ability is just this red issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're very red But they can change their color and skin texture They are carnivores.
[SPEAKER_02]: They eat mostly crabs clams squids and other octopuses as well as birds in fish Specifically some giant specific octopus have learned how to fish for eagles
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've discussed this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they waved a little fish around didn't when this didn't we discuss this at the Pugent sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's so yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they though.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they put a little fish in their tentacle and they hang it up above the water and flop it around like Like, hey, here you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when they bird swoops in to get the fish they grab it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's not insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the word.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have one of these up in the zoo, right, in Toledo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I'm not sure if the Toledo zoo does.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know they do have a large species of octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to assume it is a giant Pacific octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are pretty common.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what it was because we were up there this past.
[SPEAKER_02]: year this past summer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, but I think it was more enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul, we ended up going down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Could be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember, but I remember there was one stuck up in the corner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just can't remember it was an actually a giant Pacific Octopus or another species.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was big.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, they get big and they actually can learn people's faces.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about predators, seals, sea lions, otters, sharks, and sometimes whales.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can actually move pretty fast at high speeds of swimming, 25 miles per hour, holy cow.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's only one species in the air listed as least concerned right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like any other octopus species, the giant Pacific octopus is an incredible eyesight, chemical in-touch receptors on their suckers of their arms and the ability to learn and navigate their surroundings.
[SPEAKER_02]: Their eight arms are also able to move independently from one another, carrying out several different tasks at the exact same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: on how they do this is basically the small brains in the big brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's arm kind of has its own miniature brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Despite their large size and their fairly powerful arm, the giant disabled octopus is considered to be relatively friendly animal.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of the injuries that they caused to people like divers, the two times it happens is divers trying to pull them out of their dens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's not smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they accidentally have pulled mask off of people under water and it's not nefarious.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, they're just they really curious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they recognize people as being another species that they're curious about.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not scared of people.
[SPEAKER_02]: We even talked about you mentioned a budget sound episode of them playing tug of war with people and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're very intelligent animals relatively friendly.
[SPEAKER_02]: The animal shows great interest in people and other animals in the
[SPEAKER_02]: They mimic the color of a wet suit or a fish at different times.
[SPEAKER_02]: Individuals are able to move in general behaviors.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can however deliver a pretty nasty bike with their threatened.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... although the venom released is not and are is not thought to be overly dangerous to humans so all set up on all octopuses are venomous i was one of them that it's just not very strong okay i started when i heard a big big yes yeah it's just hurt truly bad
[SPEAKER_00]: I just remember when I learned octopus had beaks, and I was like, that don't make sense you're lying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure enough they do.
[SPEAKER_02]: The giant pacific octopus prefers extremely cold waters and does not adapt well to rapid changes in sea temperatures.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are exothermic animals, as they rely on the outside temperatures to maintain a steady body temperature.
[SPEAKER_02]: This octopus is considered generally solitary, only coming together with others to mate.
[SPEAKER_02]: They stay in their dens for extremely long periods of time, sometimes weeks before venturing out
[SPEAKER_02]: Occasionally predators may flash giant Pacific octopus or out of their dents, but more than often they're able to just have a cunning way to escape rather than fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like with ink or whatnot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or that's what they're ink.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, they ink too.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, most time even though they are quite capable and they're very large animals defending themselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would rather just not fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're very passive animals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fight or flight?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the flight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Giants of Giacobus can use your suckers to die at on shrimps, crabs, fish, and other squid before biting them using their sharp beat, tearing them apart.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's also believed that they prey upon small sharks, and have even witnessed and catching and drowning seagulls and eagles to eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Although they can grow up to truly a gigantic sizes, the giant Pacific octopus is relatively short-lived.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first three months of their life, giant Pacific octopus is a larva.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only measuring about one centimeter long, floating and freely swimming, and near the ocean's surface.
[SPEAKER_02]: The feed on the larvae of other animals such as crabs that swims down into deeper waters, here they eat regularly and grow rapidly in fully grown Pacific octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Most adults live between three and five years old before they die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Though some may live longer if they do not find a mate or if they are in captivity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: The giant Pacific octopus is eaten, or sorry, is eaten in several countries, but is not seen to have a great effect on the population in numbers.
[SPEAKER_02]: This however is very sensitive to water pollutions in changing in sea temperatures, which can alter their larvae and adults and even have delaying an interaction of egg developments causing their eggs to get eaten.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are important in controlling crustacean, molluscan, starfish populations.
[SPEAKER_02]: And areas that have been seen to have lacking of the Giants of Octopus have had these over-populate and destroy environments.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Juvenile has provided good food source for many different animals as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're like an apex.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are keystone species.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keystone species, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're not an apex because a bunch of stuff eats them too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: So generally with apex is it's kind of like a wish-washy definition.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only other apexes can threaten an apex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So when you're looking at like wolves and grizzly bears, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Pax.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're both apexes.
[SPEAKER_02]: A pack of wolves can kill a grizzly bear and a grizzly bear can kill a pack of wolves.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what they most of the time they just kind of avoid each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Outline.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mountline and a grizzly bear.
[SPEAKER_02]: He don't really know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably going to be the grizzly bear that wins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to suck the whole time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, he'd rather just eat a frog.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'd rather just not, fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: So when you look at Jypes of a guy's blister, there's many things that are trophically above them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Jypes just means food chain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not equal.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're greater.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's far as the food chain goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Jypes of a octopus is the largest octopus in the entire world.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want to guess how big they can get.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he's out on average 50 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how big they can get?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just guessed double 100 pounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: The heaviest ever weighed was around 800 pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow, that's a lot bigger than I thought.
[SPEAKER_02]: About 35 feet across.
[SPEAKER_02]: How old was Alan?
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably still five.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So why that's they grow basically food output giant squids are another one like giant squids are almost full grown at two years old So more food in bigger they get yeah, it's just and if they don't find a mate They will live a little longer, but The way to the reproductive strategy is they just don't live a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they end their reproductive strategy ends in their death See and I would have I would have never guessed that
[SPEAKER_02]: Just before I would have just thought 800 pounds 35 feet across see it's in the front four tier is 40 feet It's almost that wide and weighing as much as a cow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would have just imagine like something like that would have took years like decades to grow out, but
[SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy that it doesn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you don't have bones, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So you don't have, you don't have a lot of the restrictors.
[SPEAKER_02]: But even like, surropods, the big dinosaurs, they grew pretty fast for their size.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they were tight, tightens at 20 years old and they were growing stills.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's belief that there are much larger individuals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: These ones that were weighed were caught individuals.
[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about the position sound giant octopus episode where they would wrestle them out of holes in the 550 pound one is the biggest one ever wrestled out of there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, that's so big.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's theorized there was plenty that they cannot get out of holes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just stand in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just literally push you back.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's theorized that they get larger than that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are extremely highly intelligent animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is an animal I do not think you should eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've eaten it before.
[SPEAKER_02]: China Pacific Actipus are just octopus.
[SPEAKER_00]: octopus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I assumed it was just one of these.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, giant Pacific octopus are incredibly incredibly creative individuals.
[SPEAKER_02]: They learn how to navigate maces, open jars, and even escape their tanks, and returning before zookeepers can find them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Extra belief the size of their brain is also important factor to determine their intelligence.
[SPEAKER_02]: As far as brain to body ratio goes, the octopus has the largest brain out of any inverter bread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: That I didn't know for these reasons octopus are always listed as a 10 top smartest animals on the planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, they're up there with mammal, like mammals and a couple birds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure you'll talk about it, but people that have had them in captivity, they do some pretty awesome things.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a, I just forgot there's a new octopus, like docu-drama out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember it apparently made a lot of people cry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't watched it yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like special Yeah, but Hank the octopus at one six cape.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's It's and it's the one that inspired the finding Dory octopus is also named Hank.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a real octopus like the stories Like it's inspired by a real thing
[SPEAKER_02]: Giants of the guy to bus have nine brains.
[SPEAKER_02]: We already kind of mentioned.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have each arm has a mini brain and they have an extremely large brain in the head slash mantle area.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like all big brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big brain animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Octopus, specifically giant Pacific octopus, crates octopus gardens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Octopus what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Gardens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are very tidy animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Giants of the octopus leave all the remains of their prey outside their dens in decorative piles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the stuff that remains that they're decorating with are almost always food.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't really do it with the non food items.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the corpses of their own bones, mostly bones and shells and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whether it's art, some people actually think it's like art.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dripe a sick week, act pie are not a, are not crabby friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have been known to use their arms to pull
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're getting the crabs out of there and yeah, so a lot of fishermen really don't like them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, they're stealing their catch to be fair though.
[SPEAKER_02]: You did drop near where they hunt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they have to live there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so they're not like they're crawling into your house and eating your Cheerios.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, then you could be mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: They should be.
[SPEAKER_00]: They should they'd earned they should get some of those crap.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty strong.
[SPEAKER_02]: Their sensory receptors on their arms help detect prey and even allow the species to manipulate objects and use tools.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have sometimes collect rocks and other hard objects such as shelves to create shields or doors to their dend, as well as changing dend openings to where they stay prey often passes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Each of their arms has a huge amount of suckers on the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: And again, they have the extremability to change color and manipulate their skin texture, giant Pacific octopus skin shells, which are chromatophores contain pigments that allow them to change color in less than a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can blend in to most most patterns of corals, plants, rocks from predators, and they're almost indistinguishable.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you don't see them do it, they're pretty much, they just, they you don't know they're there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They blend right in.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh, females are fantastic mothers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Although they die shortly before they eggs ever hatch, females regularly guard clean and air rate the eggs to ensure they hatch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Spending her last bit of life energy to ensure the next generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Both males and females die after breeding.
[SPEAKER_02]: Giant Pacific Octopus reproduction, as well as most Octopi, is truly fascinating and tragic and equal measures.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Octopi can breed anytime during the year, but breeding season itself is usually less than a few days at most.
[SPEAKER_02]: The males may mate with several females during this period, but females only mate with one male their entire life.
[SPEAKER_02]: In her tent, she may lay up to our 100,000 eggs, which hanging from the ceiling in no
[SPEAKER_02]: The female will clean the eggs with their suckers, gently sweeping them, and guarding them from predators for up to a year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dang!
[SPEAKER_02]: And then she dies.
[SPEAKER_02]: After mating, the male Pacific octopus tries to mate with other females in the vicinity that have not yet made it.
[SPEAKER_02]: One to three months after the first mating, the male begins to move at extremely slowly and need very less.
[SPEAKER_02]: And after our, once they are entirely, or sorry, once they enter this period, known as sense, or sense, sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: They usually die within a few weeks, which is just like breeding to death, essentially.
[SPEAKER_02]: female stay in their den's guarding their eggs.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do not leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do not eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes female will die during this period.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every female that survives until the eggs of hatch will die shortly after.
[SPEAKER_02]: They basically never leave the den once they enter the eggs.
[SPEAKER_02]: The giant Pacific Octopus Library are tiny, less than a centimeter long.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just like I already mentioned, they are short-lived, four to five years old.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, relative to other octopus species, they are considered long-lived with many of their cousins who live
[SPEAKER_02]: Little is known about their true conservation status.
[SPEAKER_02]: The giant Pacific Optimus is currently not under any protection and has not been a cyst or a sorry assessed by the IUCN, or population sizes unknown, and they are currently not listed as endangered or vulnerable.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, they are sensitive to environmental conditions, and in some parts of their range, we have seen their complete absence, and being overrun by the species that they predate.
[SPEAKER_00]: That should, like, the star fish and whatnot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they, like you said earlier, Keystone Species.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're a Keystone Species.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what that means, because I didn't explain, I explained on a prex part of me, but Keystone is, they are a fundamental part.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like there's animals, you can take out of an environment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That really don't change the environment fundamentally.
[SPEAKER_02]: A Keystone Species means that the environment is built off of that species.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're hinges on that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a Keystone in a house is normally the corner.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the whole house is built off of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The keystone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know like a towers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like an archway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like the top one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you make like a stone archway and then the stone right in the very center that connects the two archs or the two sides of the archway together at the apex of the arch that one stone is the keystone because it holds all the way holds all the pressure of the arch.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you remove that, the whole thing collapses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what a keystone is.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, the giant Pacific octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, don't eat them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I don't want to ever again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I tried it once and a sushi place just because like, Oh, octopus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, well, yeah, another thing I left out is they can dream.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, oh, it's very hard to do because of the sensors.
[SPEAKER_02]: They just don't like to sit still for them and they'd take them off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's been plenty of social experiments with Octopi where the one that liberty family, I believe you can watch that documentary on Netflix.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which take pictures of him and stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then this new movie, which is
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to remember talk for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me look at the new movie with, oh, you're talking about the octopus movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the one that was taken picture, so that live with a family base, so they had like a tank form to live in and then they had like little tubes basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: He could kind of navigate throughout the market.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right creatures.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a name of the movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Netflix movies are markedly by right creatures.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, this thing was walking our cruiser on their house and the little tubes like hanging with the family and what it It took one of their disposable cameras.
[SPEAKER_02]: The little girl kept taking pictures of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and so it snuck out stole a camera And was taking pictures of the family falling them around and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, crazy It's so smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're incredibly intelligent animals and you should not eat them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're just good at mimicking
[SPEAKER_02]: It's right now, there's a huge thing in like Scandinavia, I believe, we're talking about doing this gigantic octopus farm and in the ocean, basically a giant cage city for Octopi and there's a lot of concerns because for how intelligent, like if you try to tell people you were doing that with elephants, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or what if you try to do not
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're talking about an extremely intelligent animal if you said that you're doing that with whales.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, or apes or elephants, people would lose their minds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're talking octopi, specifically the giant Pacific octopus and some of the cousins are on that list with those animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: They beat chimps in some cognitive test.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dang.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's impressive.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would have taken over the planet if they didn't die as a part of the reproductive strategy.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, God knows.
[SPEAKER_02]: that's that is their limiter yeah because if they could teach because all of their knowledge is genetic knowledge yeah uh so which had to be a good episode genetic knowledge yeah i think we do have an episode of genetic knowledge i think you're right i think we did actually last season i think it was probably two three seasons ago oh was it all right well i've been the great and peaceful mystery and i've been Jay well catch you next week guys bye thank you for listening to freaky fat on the Friday
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