Giant octopuses – Mysterious creatures from the depths | Experience Earth

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🐙 8 arms, 9 brains – and pretty smart! 🧠 Pacific giant octopuses look like aliens, but they're highly intelligent, sensitive, and huge: with a wingspan of up to 10 meters! 😱

📽️ Nature filmmaker Florian Graner goes in search of these mysterious animals – and encounters the female octopus Ellie. She is brought to the Port Townsend Marine Aquarium under species-appropriate 🔬 research conditions. There, she shows what she's really made of: She solves puzzles 🎲, recognizes people, and even seeks closeness. Could a small 🤝 friendship be developing between humans and animals? ...

🤿 During exciting night dives, Florian hopes for a real giant octopus rendezvous – and witnesses a dramatic scene: A female octopus guards her eggs for weeks without eating – until she dies. 💔 Even though this is normal for octopuses, it remains an 🥺 emotional moment for Florian.

🤯 Fun fact: Octopuses really do have 💧 blue blood! No joke – instead of iron like us, they use copper to transport oxygen. That's why their blood is blue instead of red!