Another octopus video

[Copper83]

I know that they are great at camouflage, but this is amazing.

http://sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html#path/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html

[twindragonsmum]

They really are amazing creatures. In one of my advanced textiles classes we were discussing how the military was working with the folks that produce Kevlar to see if there’s a way to chemicaly treat fabrics for use in camoflauge. They’ve been working with squid dna essentially, to create a textile that can’t be seen by infra red at night and can adapt to light and shadow or color and texture of the surrounding enviroment. Pretty cool stuff – the proto types recently have been showing some good results. Think what a textile like that could do for the costume and fashion industries, let alone the huge amount of protection for our soldiers…

tdm 🙂

tdm

[Lokie]

Cool =)

[Scathach]

Very cool. I knew about their camouflage capabilities, but not the extent.

Thanks for sharing.

Life is beautiful.

[Adaneth]

What an amazing clip! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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