The video quickly went viral, and internet users are not surprised to see the sea creature come so close to shore and quickly reach the man with his tentacles.
Octopuses are marine animals not usually associated with danger to humans. That’s why a video recently went viral showing the exact moment the octopod unleashed its anger on a bather.
The incident took place on a beach in Australia and was captured by Lance Karlson. What caused the most surprise was not the animal’s response, as they exhibit unexpected behavior due to their nature, most notably the octopus swimming very close to shore.
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In the clip, you can see the animal swimming in shallow water, which is why Karlson, who was in Geographe Bay with his wife and two daughters, was able to record it.
The man said he noticed the octopus was near a bed of shells when he tried to attack a seagull. Then it hit him.
“My glasses were too foggy to see what had happened and I swam back to shore in pain,” the man told 9News.com.au.
“The tentacle tracks quickly formed marks on my skin,” he added.
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“There was a little itching, but after being a lifeguard for a few years, I got bit by Portuguese caravels and it was nothing like that,” he added.
“It was more like the pain of the octopus’s physical slap,” he said.
Can octopuses dream? Could be
An octopus named Marshmallow rests at the bottom of his tank and suddenly changes color. From pale greenish white to brown and then orange, as his muscles twitch, his suction cups contract, and his closed eyes move.
The moment was captured in a film by Brazilian scientists who published a study this week in the journal iScience, according to which the advanced cephalopod experiences at least two types of sleep.
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One such state, which they called “active sleep,” similar to the rapid eye movement sleep (REM) of mammals, birds and some reptiles, raises the intriguing possibility that octopuses, like humans, are dreaming.
“Octopuses are unique in terms of both their behavioral and neuronal complexity,” Sidarta Ribeiro, a neuroscientist at the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, told AFP.
For Ribeiro, octopuses are the most complex invertebrate brain. “However, they are very different from us,” he clarifies.