Oh Wow
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
March 7, 2009 12:25am CST
An Octopus named Truman got a powerful hunger for lunch and the 7 feet long, 30 pound, eight armed aquatic bundle of determination crawled into a glass box that was the size of a child's lunch box packed with live crabs. He didn't even break the box. He simply squeezed in, grabbed booty, ate, squeezed out, and left keepers amusedly boggling.
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The only solid part of Truman's body of course is his beak. If there is a hole of any sufficient size to accommodate that beak, it is perfectly capable of fitting a octopus pass.
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Still, it is a tad disconcerting in cases when smaller cousins of Truman pull this stunt in the wild inside discarded bottles of beer in the sea.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
7 Mar 09
I didn't know that octopuses' had beaks, but I guess you learn something knew everday! I appreciate that information, is it just one type of species or what? lol... I might just research that! Very intriguing though that the octopus got into such a small box!
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
10 Mar 09
There are hundreds of species of octopus. Some are huge: The giant Pacific octopus is the world's largest octopus. Large males may have an arm span up to 25 feet and weigh more than 100 pounds! Some are so tiny they can hide in your toddler's hand. Octopus Wolfi, which can be found in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, is only 1.5 centimeters in length.
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Don't ever grab an octopus, some can kill you. Tiny Blue Rings of Australia can kill up to 25 men with deadly maculotoxin which pack a heck of a punch for a one ounce package.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
29 Mar 09
I watched a Public TV show about all the varieties of Octopi once. They even prey on each other. Anyway there was a kind of lab set up, and lots of tanks connected with small diameter clear glass piping and the octopi would just "flow" from one tank to another. Weirdly beautiful.
