The video quickly went viral, and internet users are not surprised when they see the sea creature getting so close to the shore and quickly reaching the man with his tentacles.
Octopuses are sea creatures that are not usually associated with danger to humans. That’s why a video recently went viral, showing the exact moment when the octopus unleashed its rage against a swimmer.
The incident took place on a beach in Australia and was captured by Lance Karlson. What caused the biggest surprise was not the reaction of the animal, because they have unexpected behaviors due to their nature, what was most striking is that the octopus swims very close to the sea.
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In the clip you can see how the animal swims in the shallow water and that is why Karlson, who was with his wife and two daughters from Geographe Bay, managed to record it.
The man reported that he noticed that the octopus was next to a bed of shells when he tried to attack a seagull. Then he hit her.
“My glasses were too foggy to see what happened and I swam back to shore in pain,” the man told 9News.com.au.
“The marks of the tentacles quickly formed marks on my skin,” he added.
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“It was a little itchy, but after being a lifeguard for a few years, I was bitten by Portuguese caravels and there was nothing like it,” he added.
“It was more the pain of the physical blow of the octopus,” he said.
Can octopuses dream? May be
An octopus named Marshmallow rests at the bottom of the tank and suddenly changes color. From pale greenish white to brown and then orange, as his muscles jerk, his suction cups contract and his closed eyes move.
The moment was captured in a film by Brazilian scientists who this week published a study in the journal iScience, according to which the sophisticated cephalopod experiences at least two types of sleep.
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Such a state, which they called “active sleep”, similar to the fast-moving sleep (REM) sleep of mammals, birds and reptiles, raises the fascinating possibility that, like humans, the octopus dream.
“Octopuses are unique in both their behavioral and neural complexity,” Sidarta Ribeiro, a neurologist at the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, told AFP.
For Ribeiro, octopuses are the most complex invertebrates in the brain. “However, they are very different from us,” he said.