Octopus - A Spectacular Species of the Ocean

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David shio is a professor of marine biology at alaska pacific university, and i study octopus. He worked with octopuss for about 15 years, having never seen two individuals interat before. About 50 feet below the surface, he sees thousands of these pastel scallop shells stretching across the ocean floor. David thinks octopolis originally formed around some kind of man mad object we cannot any longer recognize that's half buried in the silk.

Octopuses are largely solitary animals, but there have been rare times — notably in the movie My Octopus Teacher — where they seem to have become comfortable around humans. But is it really possible to be friends with an octopus?

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