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That's really odd ... I can't help but think (and maybe this is anthropomorphizing an octopus too much) but what the hell was the octopus thinking?
It wasn't hoping to eat the shark ... protecting territory?
Posted by: TB | August 07, 2005 at 03:26 PM
I for one welcome our new octopod overlords.
Posted by: Lis Riba | August 07, 2005 at 03:55 PM
The footage indicates quite clearly that the shark was in the process of being eaten.
Posted by: Chris Clarke | August 07, 2005 at 05:48 PM
We need to convince Karl Rove to take a swim in that aquarium.
Posted by: Swopa | August 07, 2005 at 05:59 PM
Swopa, you figure a giant octopus could take a manatee?
Posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein | August 07, 2005 at 06:01 PM
The voice over didn't mention that they were finding gnawed-on shark bodies, just shark bodies. What do Giant Pacific Octopuses usually eat?
Posted by: NBarnes | August 07, 2005 at 08:48 PM
The voice-over also mentioned 3-4 foot sharks "disappearing," which I admit is ambiguous.
Posted by: Chris Clarke | August 07, 2005 at 09:10 PM
Swopa, you figure a giant octopus could take a manatee?
It'd be worth it to find out. Maybe we could hire "Cindy" to do an artist's depiction.
Posted by: Swopa | August 08, 2005 at 12:40 AM
It didn't say they disappeared, it said they found them dead. Besides, I don't think octopi eat their prey so much as drink them.
Many predators kill other predators to reduce competition. Also, the sharks could be perceived as a threat. The octopus attacked from protection and concealment. If the shark caught the octopus in the open, it might have been bad for the octopus. The octopus was obviously just using the Bush doctrine of preventive killing.
Posted by: Njorl | August 08, 2005 at 11:14 AM
It didn't say they disappeared, it said they found them dead.
Sigh.
Listen to the voiceover again. It says they "vanished."
While you're listening, watch the end of the clip, in which an apparently very dead shark, almost entirely concealed by the octopus' body, is being dragged off. Now it's probably wrong to conclude from that that the shark's being eaten, but I'm having trouble figuring out why else the octopus wouldn't just let the shark go once it was dead.
Posted by: Chris Clarke | August 08, 2005 at 12:29 PM