Indonesian Mimic Octopus

Captain Posts : 2288 Join date : 2008-07-14 Age : 34

Got told about this by dan and stu the other day after they had been watching the discovery channel while high. Truly is an amazing creature though

Subject: Re: Indonesian Mimic Octopus Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:21 pm

Wow =o pretty incredible!

Chunin Posts : 1139 Join date : 2008-07-22 Age : 37

Nature is the ultimate arms-race.

Look up the Portea Spider: It has a genetic knowledge of the behavior of other spiders and knows how to walk all kinds of web it has not spun. It can imitate the sounds, look and vibrations on a spider's web of anything from ants to a caught animal by trapping an animal as bait or by shredding leaves into a thick heavy pulp that rips holes in webs.

For their size, their intelligence and ability to adapt on the fly to any situation makes them the greatest enemy of any other spider: from humble garden spiders, black widows, taranchulas: The Portea hunts all of them.

Captain Posts : 2288 Join date : 2008-07-14 Age : 34

wow thats one hell of a spider, amazing what nature can do

Subject: Re: Indonesian Mimic Octopus Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:45 am

Wow it is real O_O.........i thought they'd made it up whilst they were high >.> XD

Captain Posts : 2288 Join date : 2008-07-14 Age : 34

so did i at first but yeh its a real creature

Subject: Re: Indonesian Mimic Octopus Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:49 am

......................O_o why would they watch the discovery channel whilst high?

Captain Posts : 2288 Join date : 2008-07-14 Age : 34

because you find out about things like this, it sounds like a decent past time besides i don't think there was much else on at 2am