Octopus Threat Display - Key Largo, Fl.
This little reef octopus was swimming between reef heads in broad daylight. I started filming and it was very annoyed that it's camouflage wasn't working on me, so it puffed up in a 'threat display' to try to scare me off. This display is shown to potential predators to hopefully confuse them long enough that the octopus can slip away. "Deep Haze" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
This little reef octopus was swimming between reef heads in broad daylight. I started filming and it was very annoyed that it's camouflage wasn't working on me, so it puffed up in a 'threat display' to try to scare me off. This display is shown to potential predators to hopefully confuse them long enough that the octopus can slip away. "Deep Haze" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/