Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:501470 sci.physics:710177 sci.physics.relativity:475787 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-vm.kithrup.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: DNA test results Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:44:25 GMT References: <5BD3E262.11E9@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 38 In article , Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 10/28/2018 1:17 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article , >> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>> On 10/28/2018 7:48 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >>>> >>>> There was a video on the web once, unfortunately I don't have the >>>> link, showing an octopus in an aquarium unscrewing a jar in order >>>> to get the food inside. With running comment by a human, >>>> speaking Finnish. >>>> >>> In the version I've heard the scary part is that after eating the >>> octopus puts the remains back in the jar and closes it. >> >> Now, that I've never seen. Would there *be* any remains, >> considering what was in the jar was a piece of fish? But if you >> can provide a link to the video showing that, I'd love to see it. >> What I saw was the octopus removing the lid and dropping it. >> >>> They apparently >>> also have a habit of escaping from their tanks and going walk about. >> >> Oh, yes. They're smart. >> >I didn't see a video, this was something I heard many years ago. And in >this story the food in the jar was a crustacean so there were remains in >the form of the carapace pieces. Yes, in that case the octopus may well have put the shells back. The one I saw had a piece of fish in its jar. A quick google on "octopus opens jar" got me several videos, but none with the guy commenting in Finnish. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/