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This Common-Caribbean Octopus wowed us yesterday on the reef last night…changing and morphing into different colors, textures, shapes and sizes and eventually...
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This Common-Caribbean Octopus wowed us yesterday on the reef last night…changing and morphing into different colors, textures, shapes and sizes and eventually crawled into a tiny hole under a coral head.

My justification that there are aliens on our world…the octopus has a brain that for each arm, that controls color, texture…all those associated things. They have three hearts and blue blood. They squirt ink to deter predators and being boneless, can squeeze into or out of tight spaces. So intelligent - love them...one of my favorite underwater creatures to observe and photograph.
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OLYMPUS TG-6

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settings

Aperture 5/1 ISO 320 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 1188/100

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location

Kralendijk, , AN

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upload_date

Sep, 2023

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Well, octopi certainly are interesting animals . . .Great capture, btw, Ron!

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