Octopus With a Big Dilemma - Behavior Observation Test 

I mean, technically he made one then slammed it.

@@danteellerbe3461 Just very, very slowly and quiet. 😄

and if he had feet he'd stomp em! lol

LOL

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Fry's the ending of the video

HAHAHAHAAHAH

Kraken mode!

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Omg I didn’t think this comment was serious but it totally was lolll

Haha!

OH SO WE ARE JUST PUTTING STUFF IN MY BARREL NOW? SO THATS THE NEW THING? WELL HOW ABOUT WE PUT THE FILTER IN HERE? HUH DO YOU LIKE THAT? HOW ABOUT THESE DECORATIVE TILES? THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED. THIS IS WHAT YOU ASKED FOR. -arnold probably

@@laila-vp9ee ...I HATE YOU! I HATE MY LIFE! EMPTY THIS F. BARRELL AND GIVE IT BACK TO ME! - again Arnold probably

I honestly thought when he broke the little filter that he was gonna put a cube in there for good measure

Aaaaaand that's how you give a team of researchers the middle tentacle.

Bhavika Sicka Exactly he boarded up his house 🏡 so people will leave it alone 😏

EXAAACTLY !!! TRUST Issues, Now. He wint FORGET this one, guys ! Shakes fist

I believe he's feeling exposed because he can't get deep enough into the barrel. Then use items to prevent possible predators from seing him.

@@peterrevens8454 Thats exactly what Im thinking, and is probably the answer.

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Me too, if someone filled my box with blocks i would be mad

Oh fric its raining, the box is getting soggy :(

@@warper3723 Arnold is a barrel of fun

He so obviously is that he's invented a door to delineate private space.

You can see the octopus changed color after he or she found that his barrel filled with bricks..got pissed off

hahhaahhahha i was thinking the same ❤

Lmamfo this is hilarious!

Best comment

Lol!

"You see this filter cover? HUH? Don't make me use it! DON'T MAKE ME USE IT!!!"

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@@yoyopeiyn Sir, you just won youtube with that comment, and i honestly feel like i have to thank you for it now

I’d build a wall, to keep out whatever put them there.

Like opening your door to a huge ball pit in your home. The octopus version of Punk’d

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It‘s natural though - in the sea, all kinds of debris can accumulate in an octopus‘s hideout over time. Dealing with it should be instinctual.

​@@trindalasI think that's what he was doing with those tiles, setting them up as a barrier to keep anymore cubes from being put in (unless he allowed them, like the ones he slid back in with him).

This comment needs more love, seriously.

The best comment ever

i just imagine him with a rough new yorker accent or a new jersey one if he could speak.

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Top eldritch comment.

XD

Snickered outloud

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"Screw you guys, I'm going home".

So true...

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One could hope. Them, the dolphins and whales.

polymathecian lol @ “home invasion”

Arnold has learned there is no 4th without the 2nd. ;P

LOL best comment!

Octuposes invent Castle Doctrine

LOLLL

So glad I've found your channel - octopuses rule!

Arnold does not like your human ass. What kind of roomie fills your barrel with squares? Dude Really?

but on second thought, maybe I'll rearrange these things and it'll work.......yeah......that's cool.

Arnold: "Don't these people have JOBS?!"

@@slowpokebr549 you have too much time on your hands to reply to your own comments kiddo

Wrong. Arnold has learned he can collect things.

@@GARY84ROCKS Arnold ain't learned nothing! He already knows EVERYTHING.

Not like he has anything else to do.

@@modtomodern Exactly! Already knows. Unecessary human curiosity🧐 😔

Are you being serious? If u are, don't worry, Its a octopus, not a human. It likes challenges.

03:49 he even curls his "fists"

@Hash its pretty obvious he's staring at them through the tank. Otherwise he would've followed the pipe.

T P haha! YES, good catch 👍🏼

Humans suck.

No, the government

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Why are you saying again in the video

Hahaha it seemed like it!

Yeah, he was very like wtf guys? What gives? I know you did this to me you bastards. I would break you in half if I could get through this glass ;)

@Ulf Knudsen Humans act like we are the only animals that feel pain (physically and emotionally). And the "smartest", most technically-minded people in the world (scientists, etc.) are not usually empathetic, philosophical types. They play their roles, but they also do horrible things without consideration.

NO? Ok Imma break your shit.

That is SO my take on it too -- I just can't put it so cleverly! I'd love to see one of their vids with you doing captions of the octopuses' thoughts throughout it.

@@DalekWindmill That is exactly what I was thinking with the original comment!

@@Margalus Hahah nice

and especially that barrel is his! 🐙

Or he wanted the flat tiles to put on the sharp blocks so they wouldn't be so uncomfortable in his barrel. A tiled floor

It's all fun and games till he tells all his friends

Yea its almost cruel. These guys are quite intelligent.

Octopi

@@BigJoe7273 you can't be serious! Making her into a pie!

@@MrBaskevin Quite intelligent? If we could iq these fellows they would probably be higher on the scale than many (most?) people and what the scientists here are doing to a creature that wants to be unobserved is the same as you or me wanting the same.

I thought it looked like cheese

Thank you, Aly V, for making me truly LOL!

Indonesian Autumn Adder yes

I find it amusing that many shows and channels (not this one) call intelligence in animals "dangerous." It's extraordinary and exciting to keep finding complex brain functions in animals, maybe one day we'll even figure out how to communicate with a large portion of intelligent animals in complex ways. Ignorance is dangerous, discovering that our neighbors on Earth are also quite smart shouldn't frighten us, it should make us smile & wonder how we can understand them.

Indonesian Autumn Adder more like “angwy bawby ÙwÚ”

Indonesian Autumn Adder I think that might be what happened....when I don’t walk my dog he gets in the trash can to act put

@@illusionfaderr5394 Intelligence is dangerous? The thing that makes human considered as apex predators is literally our intelligence. Without it, we're at best are Level 2 prey

He needs a friend so he can lay some pipe.

what Мездра яяя яя

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There are a few moments where I swear the octopus looks straight at the camera and pauses, as if to say HOOMAN Y U DO THIS?

To be fair humans do that kind of crap to each other too.

Must be how Job felt

Anthony Baumgartner You’re right.

I thought he was then going to put one of the blocks up the pipe. "You block my home, I block your pipe!"

It could have easily removed the blocks instead of putting a floor over them. Dumb animal.

@@djmuscovy7525 I don't think it seemed that he actually wanted to move the little blocks out. He seemed to like it cozier and way maybe using the tile to make a "door" it seems to block anyone else out.

@@djmuscovy7525 He didn't put a floor over them, he dug himself a big enough hole and used the tile to block the entrance. It's cozier than an empty barrel ;)

I think he was using the tile to try to hide behind. He seemed a little irked LOL

I saw that, too. It made me laugh, but I felt so bad for the wee bloke.

Yeah he looked pissed.

He'll be back.

😂 right?

He knows they are fucking with him.

I fucking hate that this channel doesn't populate Arnold's cage with toys. Octopi have been shown to get bored very easily, and in order to appropriately take care of one it's your ethical responsibility to entertain it for the span of its day. I wonder how the people running this channel would feel if they were locked in a small, empty box with nothing but a barrel to entertain themselves with. Arnold isn't a pet, he's a fucking prisoner.

@@maxrichards3818 this aquarium is not their main 'home'. It's just for when they run tests. The barrel is usually in his main aquarium and they have much more stuff there.

given how intelligent they are, i believe thats exactly what he was thinking lol. there's a vid where an octopus "requested" help from a human

The hell is that thing

@@kukukukukuku7244 The one where he's making a girl push a log so he can grab the clams under it? ;)

i think the other boc was way to open i think octopuses like smaller cavities to hide in

Who built the ugly home next door?

Yes she bored so bored.

Yes. He was mad! Broke on purpose.

No. He wanted to use it as an aspirator to clean up the mess.

He needed a bit of encouragement of course, and yet so many in the comment section are "feeling sorry" at how "bad" the octopus is being treated when the octopus is more accomplished (and therefore theoretically happier) than he was before.

@@GARY84ROCKS I absolutely love your response! Best one I've ever read.

This is just the observation tank. Each of the Octopus have a nice tank they live in.

Put in some interesting objects to stick into his barrel somehow. Then see if he'll decorate his barrel himself.

​@@ginnyjollykidd First thing he needs is a sign threatening trespassers! 😂

Works for cats. Why not?

i mean, octopuses are basically cats of the sea, very intelligent, not all the social, and can fit basically anywhere they feel like it. You might almost call them octopussies... ... I'll show myself out...

It was apparent that he was smart enough to remove the blocks if he wanted to. But instead he decided to go all "EVERYTHING IS MINE", just to be a bitch.

Watches way too much HGTV

Yes he was 😂

Lol

Tings*

Haha 😂

Yeah!!!

🤣🤣🤣 I see you have fallen right into my trap! Give me THINGS...ALL THE THINGS.

Do you mean "When does testing an animals intelligence become agitating then for fun?" I get wanting to check it out but he's clearly not happy.

@Anna Sichla Octopus is not a social animal.They avoid contact with other octopi until mating. After mating they go back to avoiding themselves...

@Anna Sichla actually they can be social animals. They can definitely have companions. Many octopis interact with their owners in aquariums and can even ask for help some cases. They're like dogs and cats just under water and less affected if that makes sense

@@businessmail4929 However it should also be noted that an octopus is not above cannibalism. They don't seem to have the same understanding of a relationship between each other as other animals do. People also have the tendency to anthropomorphise actions animals do, so we have no real way of ever really knowing if an octopus is truly capable of forming bonds, or if we take them recognizing people or other animals and not attacking them as something more than it really is.

@@vinterfe1558 Well said.

They have a rudimentary brain in each arm to control them

Haha yes 😂

He was just about to put up his door when the filming ended. I was anticipating a full-on visual blockade to keep the camera out. Wish I could see 30 more seconds....

StarSister I was imagining something like the Full-Armor Gundam, but then again that’s just me, lol.

I want to do the same XD

Super cool! It’s not just eight arms, but a thousand little hands.

@steve hazard you can see he doesn't have precise control, he keeps picking up the little blocks he doesn't want and has to keep dropping them.

@steve hazard Four limbs eh? On an octopus huh? I'm not a biologist, are four considered "arms" and four considered "legs"? Looks like he uses 'em pretty interchangeably to me, but, like I said, I'm no researcher... But that is beside the point. Are you seriously white knighting me over what I said? Do you think I hurt the octopi community with my hateful words? What I said is simple and patently obvious. Little guy can't grab onto things with precise control, it's more like a group muscle contraction, where several suckers get activated then he has to release the ones that grab onto stuff he doesn't want. Looks like a pain in the ass tbh... the experimenters definitely knew what objects to stuff his barrel with... almost like they knew his lack of precise control was going to make sweeping out his barrel nearly impossible, but he still tried... he loved that damn barrel. Do I think I would have better control of my arms, underwater, after millions of years of contiguous evolution? Do I think I would have better problem solving abilities, were I an octopi? No. Why would I?

@steve hazard Not an accusation or indictment of Octopi kind, just an observation as a counterpoint to your excessive sentimentality and borderline anthropomorphism. I didn't see any such markings on the glass, either. -.- As it is well known that octopi do _not_ have a written form of their communication medium, I believe you may, in fact, be fabricating evidence to support your position, sir.

Haha good one 😂

That's true! xD

You are humanizing its behavior. It is just making its barrel more secure for potential predators, there are not emotions at all. Don't worry.

@@jeffbac1889 - How do u know? Cats & dogs have emotions. I watched my cousin's catch get revenge a wk later after she messed w/him. She walked past the stairs & he jumped on her head & started f*cking her up Nobody saw it coming. Funny as hell.

First, he tried to extend his domain by grading a platform of displaced blocks. Then he put a nice, smooth tile between himself and all those glued together blocks. Then he went for a door that will double as a slide once he figures out how to move some more blocks.

@@jennyfromdablock1735 the higher mammals have emotions, and on a basic level so do many other animals. But, their experience and perceptions of the world is different from ours, so you cannot read or apply human emotion and logic into the animal behavior and assume it is the same as yours. That is not to say again, they are not experiencing these emotions, but, it has a completely different meaning and context for them. This is something we will have to take into consideration if we were to ever meet an intelligent species from another planet. We will not be able to assume that intelligent alien species is feeling, perceiving, and thinking the same as us. There are quite a few episodes of Star Trek that deals with this subject. To answer your question "how do you know' we know because scientists and psychologists have been studying animal behavior and contrasting it with human behavior for decades.

At about 1:28 just before the Arnold starts taking apart the filter Arnold quickly flashes black like that was the exact moment he got pissed.

Vercessany Imani I don’t blame him. At all.

Difficult to put a number to it. And not my 5 year old. He's an idiot

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The music was composed by Arnold himself

@@hyperion3145 Arnold has some surprisingly good production values! Lol

Tranquil Rabies Indeed, when he isn’t ripping baby bottles in half he likes to walk through the woods and read poetry... Of squirrels.

Tranquil Rabies ahahahahahahahha

@@hyperion3145 🤣

Jacob Crowthorne - I had that same concern as well, so I checked out their website and found out they only put them in the bare “testing tank” for short periods of time each day. They spend most of their time in larger aquariums that are filled with things to replicate their natural surroundings. I went to: octolab.tv

@@DaffneyDalilah thanks! That's great to know!

Jacob Crowthorne - You’re welcome! 🐙💗💕

Julia Milford - That is true. I wonder if that’s out of boredom or if he prefers hiding out a lot. It would be nice to see a video of their little habitats to see what they have around them for enrichment.

Octopuses are a yummy snack for bigger animals like seals, so spending a lot of time inside their safe hole is probably normal.

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I so wish I had an octopus. I have loved them as my favorite marine creature for decades. They are amazing.

Eight times.

@@silverdollarswede151 LOL. Good one!

@@czechraiser "and it would hug me and hug me and hug me and hug me and hug me and hug me and hug me and hug me!" Quote from *My Pet Octopus*, my grandson's favorite book.

No, it appears they keep him in this blank tank 24. If they know octopuses are so smart not sure why they would build a better ecosystem for him...

This is just a testing tank. Arnold has a much better home tank with more places to hide (if he wants), plants, and other things.

@@diannamallar1155 I would really enjoy watching him hide plants!

snocookies - How do you know? Do you have facts, or are you merely assuming the worst?

@@tiltil9442 So would I. That would be quite the trick. Lol Oops, that's what happens when your brain moves faster then your fingers. You tend to forget your commas. Lol.

Same here

Yes!!!

Come home, find 2 broken tiles and a small pile of foam blocks in a corner of your house 😂😂

Wasn't it Arnold that said, "every room is a jeweled box" I always get him confused with someone like Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Alolan Vulpix Getting Railed the fuck?

ive heard that each of their tentacles basically have a brain of their own, and they cant send feedback to the main brain about the position of the tentacles, so they have to literally be able to watch what they're doing to get anything done. That's probably why they frequently go some distance away from what they were doing; to get an overview.