Best octopus joke

So, a guy comes into a bar in Scotland, carrying an octopus.
"He's the most talented animal I've ever seen," he tells all the bar flies."He can play any instrument you give him."
No one believes him. But they hand him a guitar.
The octopus makes the instrument sound like a string quartet.
Then they hand the animal a flute.
It could have been God's Own Angels, playing the world a lullaby.
Then someone picks up a bagpipe and gives it to the octopus.
The animal looks at it for a few minutes. Then he lays the instrument gently down on the floor.
"Ya can't play it, can you?" says an old Scottsman triumphantly.
"Play it?" exclaims the mystified animal. "I'm trying to figure out how I can take its pajamas off so I can make love to it."

Hat tip: Kraken

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Where's the octopus?

Where's the octopus? It's a question that goes well beyond cute videos and actually explains most of the world's problems and how to solve them. More on that later...

But first, the star of today's show. Watch the video below, and see how an octopus can hide in plain view, just like yesterday's blogfish showed you fish camouflage.



It's amazing how the octopus can hide so effectively as if it were a rock, a piece of coral, or a clump of algae. It's still an octopus, but its shape, texture, and color match perfectly with it's surroundings.

More later on solving the world's problems with the wisdom of the octopus...

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Octopus sex includes flirting and fighting

Human mating behavior is not so different from an Indonesian octopus. The prelude can include flirting and passionate hand-holding, but it can get rough when macho males jealously guard a female's home and strangle rivals.

The photo above right shows octopus sex, including the males specialized mating arm. The secrets of octopus mating have been hard to uncover, since octopi are so secretive. The current study came as scientific voyeurs hovered over the homes of shallow reef octopus and watched until they had seen enough. Special secrets include small "sneaker" males that mimic females and try to slip past other males to get to a willing female.

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