Savvy Cephalopods
 

That is cute! I've always loved octopi. They're very intelligent.

That's awesome!

Then there are the stories (I've heard it told about so many acquariums that I just assume it is a marine biologist urban legend, but I hope not) of giant Pacific octopuses escaping their tanks, eating fish out of neighboring tanks and then returning to their tanks.

I do know that some species learn mazes better than rats.

They can also open jars.

And I once watched a documentary on Nickelodeon that showed one operating a cash register and being irritable.

Yeah, Ralphie studied these creatures. He said it all that time that they are indeed very smart. And, yes, leaving a tank to go to another one and back does indeed happen. Apparently, that happened at the Monterey Bay Aquarium long ago.

Squid. (well, that is also a cephalopod also, but all the stuff I've seen always involved octopi, not squid).

Shows what I know trying to reference a show I've never seen an entire episode of.

They are also very very delicious!

so, come the human apocolypse, we now see who will be running things in a few million years

so, wont you join me in saying
'all hail our new cephalopod rulers!'

Welcome, new octopus overlords.

Anyone see the "Future Is Wild" series on cable? They postulated a future species of tree-branch swinging octo-monkeys. I can't find any pictures, but it was a really cool show.

I'm pretty sure they are aliens from another planet.

Makes me wonder if I should convert to Cthulhuism....

I have long accepted Cthulu as my lord and savior. :D

Cthulhu fhtagn!

I love that! Thanks, OP.

Bonus points to the video's narrator for use of two great words: "nifty" and "scuttle".