Amazing Octopus Color Transformation | National Geographic

let’s say you’re a sigh hey Nia octopus
and you don’t care for the burgundy red
color of your skin how about something
in a dose a pale pink no problem that
done you just expand or shrink the
millions of pigment cells or
chromatophores in your skin to instantly
change color you can also use tiny
muscles in your skin to change its
texture now a kind of snakeskin print
might be just the thing for a
fashionable octopus trying to blend in
with a smart set fashionable and low-key
off the radar of any hungry sharks
passing by and nobody here just another
rock formation
once that danger is passed it’s time for
prey to become predator here’s some
remarkable close-up footage of a sight
any octopus going hunting what are you
looking for crustaceans and molluscs
that are as good at hiding as you are
well almost
here’s a sigh any aside view of a reef
flat that seems like nothing but a
couple of billion hidey holes of course
that’s where your amazing tentacles come
in handy you literally feel your way
across the cracks and crevices your
suckers are so sensitive you can
actually use them to taste what you
touch aha you sense a meal that means
it’s time to unfurl yourself like an
exterminators tent engulfing a termite
filled house
your prey is trapped your grip is sure
your arm tips go to work
flushing out bits of food and
disappearing them into your maw until
recently no one knew what was happening
underneath your web don’t ask us how but
we’re going to reveal your dining habits
senior Sonya here’s what’s going on this
crab gets thrust into what’s called your
beak your bite has a little toxin just
enough to seal the crabs doom now that
we know what’s going on under that web
we don’t ever need to see that again do
we