Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land | The Hunt | BBC Earth
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as proof that some octopuses really do crawl out of the water to hunt.
What it is
A BBC Earth clip from The Hunt showing an octopus species from northern Australia that leaves the water at low tide to hunt crabs on land.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends nikofeyn · 2018-12 · on “The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?”
this is something a certain species in Australia does, as covered in the bbc's the hunt . [this video] it's fascinating. they also filmed this in blue planet ii. [LINK] that clip unfortunately cuts off the first part where the shark caught the octopus, but the octopus put its arms in the sharks gills so it couldn't breathe and got away.
Cites mr_toad · 2023-07 · on “The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus”
There is a species of octopus that does crawl out of the water to hunt (Australian, of course), but they don’t climb trees. [this video]
Cites PepperdineG · 2023-07 · on “The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus”
>Octopuses are very much a water-only type of organism. They're not though. Octopi generally don't like being out of water, but they're capable of traveling on land short distances and in fact the Abdopus Aculeatus octopus regularly goes on land by choice in order to hunt crabs in different tidepools. Sir David Attenborough discusses the octopus here, which this octopus was one of the animals featured in The Hunt documentary: [this video]
Cites mncharity · 2024-11 · on “The Silurian Hypothesis”
> experimental chemistry and physics would be harder to pull off underwater Amphibious octopuses?[1] In the widespread and connected shallow seas of a supercontinent world? [1] BBC Earth [this video]