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- My Octopus Teacher is an amazing Netflix film - but they missed some key biology about octopus! Melanie Knight, marine biologist and educator, shares 10 key facts about octopus the movie left out.
Go watch the movie first - SPOILER ALERT!
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Hi all! I just turned on comments. Please let me know what your favorite octopus fact is and what you loved about the film.
Hi, could you please tell us your thoughts on the Octopus playing with the fish & then being playful & affectionate with Craig? Is that something you've witnessed before? Could octupus's be classed as sentient creatures?!!
Hi @@MissOrchid12, they are definitely playful animals. Lots of studies and stories from divers show that octopus interacting with humans is common.
Sentience is hard to pin point but highly intelligent? Yes!
Octopus have colour sensing cells on there skin, so their eyes maybe colour blind but they can see it with their skin which I found truly amazing.
How they are able to perfectly match the texture and color of their surroundings, essentially becoming invisible. It is mesmerising.
I don't remember where I heard this, someone told me humans are lucky octopuses don't nurture and raise their offspring because if they passed on their knowledge from generation to generation, they could easily outsmart mankind with their innate intelligence (I guess their short life expectancy is also a disadvantage for them.)
I must admit I found myself deeply moved watching this, the fact that two completely different creatures can share a bond of absolute trust had me in tears and very humbled.
I couldn't stop crying...and, to think, octopuses have been around for a few hundred million years and they die like this every year...
I have been raving about this movie ever since it came out. I was just blown away and so moved by the film. I would love to find out more about the octopus' ability to use other objects (like the shells) to camouflage or protect themselves. Lastly, have you ever even heard of an octopus jumping on the back of a shark to scare it away? That was wild.
One of my favorites to watch.
I recommend this to people who like to watch documentaries.
I was shocked and absolutely amazed at her obvious emotional maturity and the fact I could see and feel her emotions!! Mind was blown. Have watched it 3 times in 24 hrs. I see something different every time but I feel something different from her as well !! Amazing !!!
Nice video Mel. This movie was like a warm blanket on a sunny day with a cooling breeze. I enjoyed My Octopus Teacher very much.
This documentary is truly epic ... I will never again eat calimari!! This creature was so perceptive and intelligent, I was amazed. Love to all involved in the documentary and I am the richer for this info.
Calamari is squid, not octopus ;) Also, octopuses eat themselves after their eggs hatch, nibbling and tearing away at their own tentacles. Apparently their death after giving birth is nature's way of protecting their young, because if they didn`t, given their own cannibal instincts, there'd be the real danger of their eating their newly hatched young. So, even through octopuses are amazing and intelligent creatures, there's no need to feel guilty about eating them on occasion. We're all part of the food chain... and, apart from their eating fish and crab,, they also eat themselves!
@@nuria6075
It’s always amazing such mental gymnastics... the hoops people will jump through to rationalize ignoring their empathy gene, to justify totally unnecessary killing of sentient animals.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 that’s what the octopus must be going through every time he eats a crab
Ps. You are voted off our team when we have to survive
@@frankbringus7919
What are you talking about? An octopus is built to be a carnivore. Humans are built to be vegetarians, but can get by by eating meat too. Vegetarians live on average almost a decade longer though.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 who built an octopus to be a carnivore? Who built a human to be a vegetarian? Who built this world this way and why?
Why does a shark eat a fish? Could’ve the builder given the shark a different way to survive? Vegetarians are vegetarians until they are hungry
I love how excited you are telling us all this 🐙🙂
Thanks so much King Louis XIX!
Toward the end it was questioned how they can be color blind yet apply colour when camouflaging. The reason is that their skin contains the pigment proteins found in eyes, making it responsive to light.
Wow, thanks Noreen! So their skin is like a huge eye?!!
Awesome information! Thank you. The more I learn about octopuses the more I realize how fascinating they are.
This review has HEART! Mel, you are so excited and that is really infectious. My students will love this. Thank You
Hi Brian, sorry for my delay! Thanks so much for your super kind comment. Thank you for sharing with your students! Tell them I say hi 👋
Saw the film last evening. Loved it. So refreshing to see a genuine and heartfelt film.
I can feel her enthusiasm when talking about what she loves
The documentary is mesmerizing! I was begging my friend to watch it for about 2 weeks ❤️
Was amazing, heartbreaking at the end but this was her nature,she served the forest until her last breath.
Hey, don't do that to me talking about the movie and getting emotional and touching like that... Your eyes and voice makes my cry all over again hahahahahahaha. Best double feature, the documentary and your video. Thank you so so much. Hugs from Brazil.
Very well done, beautiful photography, and it made me cry.💖
When I was watching it, I realised I can't eat calamari ever again. And when I'm next in Sinai, watching Bedouin women out on the reef catching calamari and whacking them dead on the rocks... OMG. Amazing film, not least for the photography - on land and underwater. So inspiring. (And now I so appreciate holidays on the beach as a kid in Mombasa playing around in the rocky pools. In Sussex out in the fields with cows all day. And all the other close encounters with Nature.)
I won eat again either.
Isn't calamari squid? I don't think I want to eat octopus but a squid is not the same. Right?
@@tristanwwsd I suspect you’re right, but similar family… too close for comfort.
@@guybartlett9587
Bravo! You and the OP should have empathy for more animals next to get them off your dinner plate. :)
I'm here after watching the film! I was deeply moved by it. Thanks for your review 😄
Thanks for watching!
Saw the film! Excellent! I love documentaries! Cool part of the film is he includes his son in his experience and his son learns of the amazing animal , and he learns compassion, respect, for all living creatures. Great review Mel and loved your sharing your knowledge / insight into these amazing creatures. Amazing how animals and plants adapt to their surroundings. We humans - nah !!! No you weren’t talking too fast cause you weren’t boring. Loved your enthusiasm.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment, Chris. Nature is the best inspiration!
I am lucky enough to visit 5 octopuses in my volunteer job at an aquarium. We just added a cute little baby California Two Spot, and it is so cool to watch! I had no idea that an octopus esophagus goes through its brain. The other thing I learned was that it has a raspy tongue to work on the shells of crustaceans. Their intelligence never ceases to amaze me, and I'm always learning new things as I try to answer questions to our guests. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on octopuses.
Hey! So cool you get to be up close with 🐙 so often! Great job volunteering, that is great experience! Thanks for watching and leaving a note. 🩵
Wow! I did not know that octopuses are color blind! I’ve learned a lot about them - but not that. So cool! I can’t fathom how they match camouflage so brilliantly like they do - mind boggling!
Saw it last night. Amazing! Brilliant!🐙♥️
Great video. I didn't know about Latin words and the part about ending those with an "i" for plural. Thanks for a great video.
Thanks so much for watching and for leaving a lovely comment!
they are amazing creatures, they have superior problem solving skills.
Thanks Rhonna for all your comments!
Loved the documentary and it made me tear up! Just stumbled on to your channel and LOVE your enthusiasm!
Thanks so much for watching and for your comment! It is such a beautiful film!
Loved this film. Watched it twice..Cried at the end.. both times. ❤️
I know right? It was such a beautiful film. Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
I've never seen such passion and cuteness in an informarive video. I really enjoy it keep it up
Thanks so much Ezzio! 😊
I LOVE your enthusiasm! Fun to watch. Thanks.
Thank you for all explanations. I cried so much at the end...Three hearts ? Not bad....Thank you again.
I loved My Octopus Teacher, thank you for the fun facts!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very informative Mel! Thank you for sharing this info and keep up the great work
Thank you 🙏!
Thank you for putting out this cool video!
Had no clue they couldnt see color! Its amazing they can match colors without seeing the color. Theres gotta be more to it than what we understand. Bc red, green, blue would all look the same under black and white wouldn't it??
I love your passion and excitement !
I love how you're so excited about these octopus facts.
Thanks Sean! What do you get excited about?
I watch the documentary last night and sent the trailer to friends. Your video was below it. Your enthusiasm is infectious!
I had previously read The Soul of An Octopus by Sy Montgomery which went into some detail about the connection she had with an individual octopus.
The Soul of An Octopus is a great book! Good suggestion for anyone interested in octos. Thanks Robert.
Thank you for sharing your added fast-facts. Your tidbits, along with the film, enlightened me to many new facts about octopuses (NOT octopi). What fascinating creatures! My favorite newly learned fact was finding out that they have the ability to develop a unique connection with a human. Watching Craig cuddle with his sea-pal was so very, very sweet, however seeing her seemingly enjoy the intimate interaction was even more endearing. It saddened me to learn how the female's lifespan is cut short due to her selflessness and necessity to procreate, the ultimate sacrifice.
Per your last question regarding how people can still eat these wise creatures (and other living beings): I HAVE NO CLUE! As I see it, they most certainly deserve to live and thrive just as we do. So if you should ever unlock that specific mystery, please share the answer, as I would really like to know also🐙🕉✌
Thanks for your thoughtful comments!
🍆 arm. Had me giggle a little. This review was so energetic. Thank you. My children and I watched this when it first came out. We all cried at the end. Then watched it again, once a day for three days in a row.
Yeah I saw the film it's one of the best documentaries I've seen it a long time love it
Off topic but Mel is such a natural beauty with her awesome blue hair!
Thanks Mel, for making my interest grow for this movie. I'm gonna watch it now!🤗
Thanks Nicole! How did you like the movie?
@@MarineBiologyMel
It's EXTRAORDINARY!
Thanks for the info. Fascinating! I loved the film. 🐙🥰
OMG......you are so adorable! Just learned about this film and am so excited to watch it! Cheers!
Life changing. Honestly.
Thanks, I'm gonna watch it tonight!🙏🐙
This video info was awesome 🙏
Glad you liked it, Funny Seven!
yes we just watched it was amazing. I'm sad they never named her.
VIBRATION. they see colors through feeling vibrations. Each color has another vibration level.
Great tidbit / fun fact on the pluralization of octopus is NOT octopi! Who knew?! ....you did =)
Thank you. Luv'n your most informative review❣️
You are adorable. Thank you for the information
I adore that film/documentary
I love this film!
"Do octpuses have an anus? Great question!" ......lol....just what I was wondering when I woke up this morning! LOVE your enthusiasm!
LOL thanks @mike! Glad I could answer your burning question. Haha
Great information. Do not try cuddle a blue ring octopus in Australia they can kill you.
fine WISDOM
I would have built an aluminum diuble shield shell for her, after the shark encounter!
I dont get on how a colour blind creature could mimic such a colorful objects.
I never eat again 🐙
Loved your video. You need your own TV show. Please contact the BBC immediately. David Attenborough has to retire eventually!
LOL you are too kind! Thanks so much for your kindness. Not going to lie, that would be amazing! haha.
just watched it and it was amazing. and even tho the octopus was beatifull, i couldnt even touch it. im scared of them.
What do you think, why is the title called my octopus teacher?
Octopus is a Greek word meaning eight feet. Just to add to the review. Great great movie.
How did I not include this? Great fun fact mambagr! Thanks for watched and commenting!
Fist-screw is how an octopus mates ?
Hola love you description of the movie and the octopus. I swim 6am in that area. Is life experience best for me 10 to 13 D.
We were taught that an Octopus has arms or legs not tentacles as a cuttlefish does.
Hi NT, you could be right and I was using them interchangeably. Cuttle fish are so cool too!
it is fine...they are very clean...
Wow so many times.
Oque o filme me trás é a incrível força do amor ,suplantando os instintos e a mente raciona,l e se pensar bastante sobre isto só pode haver um Deus que habita em todo ser vivo e que este Deus que esta em nós supera com força incomparavel nosso aspecto instintivo e racional assim com nos surpreende no comportamento de muitos indivíduos das diversas espécies de animais.
Millions of years of evolution...some things you can't explain.
"its his penis arm". Lol crude but def gets the point across.
He could have safe her at the end.. when she was weak, why not?
It was sad for sure. Octopus are terminal spawners so there was nothing he could do really as she was dying as part of her natural life cycle.
It might make you feel better to think about it as if she was an old elderly woman who had had a beautiful life. He shouldn't have helped her because that would be like turning a grandma into a robot or something, unnatural.
I’m color blind. Am I an octopus? 🤣
i asked that too, how did he know it was a girl?
If the Octapus dies I can't watch it.
I did _not_ like " *My Octopus Teacher* " because it was awful and was an excellent example of human exceptionalism. I could go into details as to why I didn't like this movie and why I'm incredibly surprised that a professional marine biologist _did_ like it instead of being disgusted by it, but I won't because people far more motivated than I have done it far better than I could.
Maggie May does the best job at explaining how I feel about it because I agree with her pov 100%. Minus the sarcasm of course:
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I really cannot believe he didn't "shoe" the sharks especially on the first encounter when he had the chance.
( I would have speared them)
Stating he didn't want to disturb the "natural process".... yet there are crustacean Wranglers and other humans involved with releasing crab and lobster for the "natural" hunting scene sequences
All this comments about the dude and the octopus having a bond, they have no bond this is grizzly man all over again is just a weird guy trying to give anthropomorphic qualities to an animal and assume the animal is going to perceive reality the same way a human does, just to justify his paraphilia and imagine somehow this poor animal is consenting to be harassed this way. Life is not a Disney movie, this is just a weird docu about a weird dude harassing an innocent octopus probably for sexual reasons
Interesting facts, but why not illustrate them with visuals? It would have been way more instructive and compelling to be seeing all these aspects of octopuses than just watching a human being the whole time.
Thanks Nuria for your feedback! I will try to incorporate more images throughout my videos in the future.
I'm sorry but this all makes me wanna watch squidbillies
Octopii.Octopus.. not octopuses ;)
Oops my bad (I grudgingly recon) :)
Ha, thanks Wulf for watching and commenting!
Spoiler alert, all animals are sentient beings with some level of intelligence which is why everyone should be vegan. No moral difference between eating an octopus, a dog, cat, pig, goat etc.
He should have made friends with the sharks too they maybe had calamari parties to go to
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And this relates to octopuses how? Are you on every site?
Um, Sorry; but "My Octopus Teacher " is not, NOT a documentary !
The film is just a cute fabrication; sorta like "underwater Bambi"
I grant you that it was clever and creative.
But lets get real; it was also a totally dreamed up, oh so heart wrenching, FANTASY story.
The octopus did NOT spontaneously gravitate to the man.
Watch really closely when the man has his first encounters with the octopus; you'll see pieces of shrimp that are floating in the water that proves that the guy WAS JUST FEEDING the creature. Come on Mel; the "key biology" that you missed was that " the poor lonely octopus" wasn't reaching out for the man's companionship; it just knew that a free meal was coming when the man was present
so is that the only reason my dog likes me? I think not, you can totally become friends with an animal especially if you are with them everyday.
@@KOSYOUNG go on and love your dog man; but know that our dog is a domesticated animal and DOES not occur in nature; Octopus' are arguably somewhat intelligent; but are also WILD ANIMALS. Please do your homework; Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed; who I am sure are very nice people; ARE WRITERS ; not biologists. They crafted a VERY compelling FANTASY story which made an otherwise uninspiring bunch of "nature show footage " into a HUGE world wide success. Remember " March of the Penguins"? It was documentary; albeit a tad overly dramatized; perhaps BUT THAT"S WHAT SELLS!
Don't have children
All documentaries are fabrications, with varying degrees of objectivity. She chose to ignore that to talk about octopuses facts instead. It’s the narrative she choose.just like the film made a dog out of hungry octopus.
the plural is Octopi ..... perhaps you shouldn't be right in your face in the camera... really off-putting... sorry , enjoyed the film and I also am a biologist and yeah they missed some things but it was excellent and make your own movie if you think it's not sufficient :D
Your comment seems unkind really
Great lesson, thanks!. (Myself, I’m partial to the Greek 𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴!)