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Celebrity octopus off Shizuoka cape shakes tentacles with divers

Video footage taken on March 4 shows a “mejirodako” octopus marginatus, also known as coconut octopus, interacting with a diver 15 meters underwater off Cape Koganezaki in Nishi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Hiroko Matsumoto, who first spotted the creature in February, named the female octopus Horami-chan partly because it inhabits a conch shell that resembles a “horagai” Triton’s trumpet. The octopus seems to remember individual divers it has met and responds accordingly. (Kazuhiko Okada)
Video footage taken on March 4 shows a “mejirodako” octopus marginatus, also known as coconut octopus, interacting with a diver 15 meters underwater off Cape Koganezaki in Nishi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Hiroko Matsumoto, who first spotted the creature in February, named the female octopus Horami-chan partly because it inhabits a conch shell that resembles a “horagai” Triton’s trumpet. The octopus seems to remember individual divers it has met and responds accordingly. (Kazuhiko Okada)
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Credit:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Editorial #:
1308530683
Collection:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Date created:
March 04, 2021
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Clip length:
00:00:55:11
Location:
Shizuoka, Japan
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MPEG-4 8-bit H.264 HD 1920x1080 29.97p
Source:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Object name:
celebrityoctopus