- [Man 1] Ooh, look at that purple thing.
- [Man 2] That's an octopus.
- [Man 1] That's an octopus? No way.
- [Woman] That's an octopus!
- [Man 2] Cephalopods.
- Oh! - Yeah.
Take outta the watch.
- [Man 1] Do we know what kind?
- [Man 2] Actually, I don't know,
but this will definitely make some highlights.
- [Man 1] Oh, that's so cool.
(man speaks indistinctly)
- [Man 3] Original alien concept. Great big head.
- [Woman] Are these two little, are those it's eyes?
Beady little black things.
- [Man 2] Must be, yeah.
We're gonna wanna get closeups of this for sure.
Because actually you can identify these to genus
and sometimes species if you look at the morphology
of the tentacles seems to be most important.
I've never actually seen this type of octopus
on these sea mounts before.
Usually we get the dumbos, but this is not a dumbo.
- [Man 3] He's a smart boy.
- [Man 1] He's wondering what's going on.
- Whoa. - Oh wow.
- [Man 1] It's beautiful. Octopus Friday.
- [Man 2] Yeah, that's a thing.
- [Woman] Ah, yes.
- [Man 2] And Octacoral Friday, that is a thing too.
- [Man 1] Do you think it's moving slowly
because it's cold or because- - It's coming to check us out.
This one's very active.
Usually they're not so active..
This one kind of reminds me of those
of the ones we see off of Davidson sea Mount.
But I don't think it's the same genus.
- [Man 1] Aw, look at the little face.
- [Woman] I think this is Octopoda, nickname Casper.
- [Man 2] Oh, it could be.
Yeah, it could be.
You know, it's almost impossible to collect these.
So we're not gonna do that, but getting some good imagery,
especially on the undersides of the tentacles
where the suction discs are and figuring out
how many rows of suction discs there are
on the underside of the tentacles
can be diagnostic in some cases.
- [Man 3] Some people in the chat are saying
this is a casper octopus.
Would that be correct? - Possibly. Yeah.
Sometimes you can also look at tentacle morphology.
The males will have a modified tentacle
for reproductive purposes, but I don't see that here.
- [Woman] I feel like it's staring
straight into my soul.
Oh my gosh.
- [Man 1] Nice shot.
Wow. Nice.
How many rows of suction cups do we have?
- [Man 3] Quick count.
- [Man 2] Not quite getting the view for that.
Let's see here.
- [Woman] Like the Casper also only has one row.
- [Man 2] Could be what it is, yeah.
Tat's tagged from NHI
which is Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
Close enough. - Aw. It's so cute.
- [Man 2] Wow.
Really does look like it's staring at your soul.
- [Man 1] I totally get you.
Goodness.
- [Man 3] Wonder what he is thinking right now.
Probably nothing.
- [Man 2] Don't underestimate the intelligence
of cephalopods.
Trying to figure out how to get into the alien spaceship.
(people laugh)
He knows he get somewhere, he doesn't know if he can get in.
- [Man 1] First the Nautilus, then the world.
- [Man 2] This has gotta be some sort of purposeful posture.
The coiled tentacles, shrivels a little bit.
I wonder if it's like a defensive
or maybe it's getting ready to jet.
The behaviors are almost as important
as the animals themselves are just really interesting
because they have a lot of emotive behaviors.
- Wow. - Stretching out.
Yeah. He's stretching out.
- [Woman] Maybe he just woke up.
- Good morning. - That's cool.
- [Man 3] So what do these guys eat?
- [Man 2] They're probably macro-invertevores.
So they're eating invertebrates either in the sediment
or could be on a rock.
Gonna guess probably sediments.
- Like worms? - Yeah. Yeah.
- [Woman] Do they also have beaks like other octopus?
- [Man 1] Looks like he's getting ready to take off.
- [Man 2] Think they do.
I'm not sure about the entire anatomy
of these critters. - And now he trips.
- Looks like it's plie-ing, like a ballerina.
- [Man 2] Yeah.
- [Man 1] There he goes.