Animal Acrobats: Cyanea Octopus | National Geographic

hundreds of years ago sailors thought
octopi were sea monsters called devil
fish capable of tracking down ships we
know they’re not devil fish but we still
don’t know everything about them
including where they’ll turn out next
we’ve created a Plexiglas Wonderland
just so you can observe how amazing this
creature really is the octopus imagine
that you’re an octopus like this cyanea
here your body has no bones none and
what that means is that you’d be able to
go almost anywhere you want to even if
you happen to be a very large octopus
six hundred pounder say you’d be able to
squeeze yourself down so far you could
pass through a passageway no larger than
a quarter
since you don’t have air bladders or gas
pockets that would crush or implode at
great depths you can live at the very
very bottom of the ocean where there’s
15,000 pounds of pressure per square
inch a human being exposed to that kind
of pressure would implode in a split
second can you imagine how much fun it
would be to be an octopus you could go
anywhere you want slide under a door get
into any room you’d have a body unlike
any other on earth you get hungry you
could use one of your 240 suction cups
to grab a meal no matter how many yoga
classes a human takes he’ll never be
this flexible