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Shield Insurance Blog | December 7, 2023 | Pet Octopus | Medical Insurance | Shield Home Page

A few years ago, Mark Rober went viral with his amazing backyard squirrel maze video (watch here). The video garnered over 100 million views on YouTube alone!

Well, he’s back with a new video making the rounds. This time, it’s an intricate underwater maze for his pet octopus.

Octopuses are widely recognized as highly intelligent creatures. They are exceptional problem solvers, have an excellent sense of spatial awareness, and exhibit both short-term and long-term memory capabilities.

With these attributes, it should prove to be an outstanding maze solver. Now, let’s observe its performance!

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Octopus

Octopuses are sea animals famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes, and eight long arms. They live in all the world’s oceans but are especially abundant in warm, tropical waters. Octopuses, like their cousin, the squid, are often considered “monsters of the deep,” though some species, or types, occupy relatively shallow waters.

Most octopuses stay along the ocean’s floor, although some species are pelagic, which means they live near the water’s surface. Other octopus species live in deep, dark waters, rising from below at dawn and dusk to search for food. Crabs, shrimps, and lobsters rank among their favorite foods, though some can attack larger prey, like sharks. Octopuses typically drop down on their prey from above and, using powerful suctions that line their arms, pull the animal into their mouth. The octopus performs its famous backward swim by blasting water through a muscular tube on the body called a siphon. Octopuses also crawl along the ocean’s floor, tucking their arms into small openings to search for food. Seals, whales, and large fish prey on octopuses.