{"id":3183,"date":"2011-11-20T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2011-11-26T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T14:18:22","slug":"top-stories-syrian-fm-says-arab-league-being-used-as-tool-libya-says-gadhafi-son-to-be-tried-at-home-ows-outcry-after-california-pepper-spraying-strong-quake-jolts-japan-felt-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Crawls Out of Water, Walks on Dry Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"lw_1322142135_5\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOPUS CRAWLS OUT OF WATER, WALKS ON DRY LAND: <\/strong>A family visiting the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, California, caught an incredible video of an octopus crawling out of water and onto dry land where it proceeded to walk around.\u00a0 The video is especially unique because octopi are notoriously shy with humans, other creatures, and even members of their own species.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, walking on land in the octopus kingdom is not as unique as you might think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the  net as a trampoline. They&#8217;d leap off the mesh and onto the floor\u2014and  then run for it. Yes, <em>run<\/em>. &#8220;You&#8217;d chase them under the tank,  back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,&#8221; [Middlebury College  researcher Alexa] Warburton said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so <em>weird<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Octopuses in captivity actually escape their watery enclosures with  alarming frequency. While on the move, they have been discovered on  carpets, along bookshelves, in a teapot, and inside the aquarium tanks  of other fish\u2014upon whom they have usually been dining.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s quite unusual to capture video of a walking octopus in  action. Part of the reason that studies on the creatures have been so  limited, aside from their brief three-year life spans, is that they are  notoriously shy, usually avoiding contact not only with humans, but with  any other creatures, including fellow octopi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOPUS CRAWLS OUT OF WATER, WALKS ON DRY LAND: A family visiting the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, California, caught an incredible video of an octopus crawling out of water and onto dry land where it proceeded to walk around.\u00a0 The video is especially unique because octopi are notoriously shy with humans, other creatures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}