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> So it’s not like a tree octopus is any more ridiculous than the coconut crab? It is a lot more ridiculous though because land crabs are a well known thing (
by CydeWeys 3y ago
> So it’s not like a tree octopus is any more ridiculous than the coconut crab?
It is a lot more ridiculous though because land crabs are a well known thing (e.g. hermit crabs) whereas land octopuses don't exist. Octopuses are very much a water-only type of organism.
It just requires a little prior knowledge about the broad strokes of animalian orders.
- wood_spirit 3y agoOctopuses are molluscs, and there are lots of land living molluscs, right?
- dvt 3y agoTo make things even more murky, some octopuses can actually breathe air out of water (which I knew prior to seeing the page), so I was actually semi-fooled by the article as well. An arboreal octopus is actually not that far-fetched.
- Clamchop 3y agoPeople learn new things all the time, but an octopus that lives in trees would probably be pretty famous.
- PepperdineG 3y ago>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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeNeQFUMa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeNeQFUMa0