Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/13/watch-octopus-vs-eagle.html
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When I was a kid, I watched those animal documentaries where like 10,000 baby sea turtles would get eaten by birds, crabs, whatever on their run to the ocean, and I wondered if the camera operators helped some out. Later, I realized birds and crabs gotta eat. They are counting on that turtle bounty and to decide that turtles “win” seems a disruption to an order sorted by nature.
I feel bad for this octopus–that’s a lot of protein and it’s risky to grab it off the surface. When will we learn to leave things alone?
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two beautiful creatures. a bald eagle and an amazing octopus.
not sure if i am sad that the octopus was deprived of a meal or happy that bald eagle got away.
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Yay Humans!
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Eaglenado vs Octoruption 2: The Peckening! It is beak against beak action!
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The guy in the boat was deprived of a good meal too. Octopus are tasty, I’m not sure if I like them better battered and fried, or chilled with cucumber and wakame seaweed in a light vinegar dressing.
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Again?
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I wonder if they would have bothered if the roles were reversed.
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I agree with your sentiment, though it’s likely that the initiation of the encounter went the other way: the eagle swooping down to take the octopus and getting the script flipped on it.
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Like in that Annie Dillard book
Where she sees that eagle with the skull of a weasel
Hanging from its neck
And here’s how it happened, listen.
Eagle bites the weasel. Weasel bites back.
They fly up to nowhere. Weasel keeps hangin’ on.
Together forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZv9kuEHR-4
Laurie Anderson, Speechless
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Eagle, “Now this is a story all about how
my life got flipped turned upside down
and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I almost become the lunch of a cephalopod called Cesare.”
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This is the perfect metaphor for America right now. Well, and the UK. But not an eagle, there.
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Don’t mess with the octopus!
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I think that the UK version is a pigeon being attacked by an Eagle and Rats.
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Octopuses are smarter than dogs. You do you, but for me, they are off the list of things to eat.
Squid are pretty stupid, so you are more okay there.
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Apparently someone released the Kraken.
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While interfering with a single hunt isn’t going to have much impact, humans really should refrain from interfering in the predator-prey dynamics of wild animals.
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They’re also dang near impossible to animate
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