Kinda disappointed. A lot of interesting details about octopus in general were left out, and the whole reason for clicking on video was never actually brought up. What would happen if an octopus lives past 5? How big could they get? Why can't captive octopuses live longer?

Tired of watching these videos where the question in the video title isn't even answered. 🙄

Man, their short lives hurts my heart. 😢

Octopus are smart. I found a Octopus in a gallon glass jug with the lid taped on and left in the sun on the beach. I let it out and I was surprised at how big it was and that it fit in the jug. For some unknown reason someone had locked it in the jug, but I let it out on the shore in a tide pool. I expected it to s urry off in to the ocean but it hung around and it thanked me. We sat on the beach and watched the sunset. That Octopus was grateful, it wrapped its tentacles on my hand and arm with out suction, it just sort od caressed my hand, I think it was saying thanks. For a year when I visited that beach and tide pool I most always saw it, it would come out of the ocean to hang out with me and my buddies, that Octopus was smart, it was an interesting experience and encounter. I think they are sweet critters. I would put a bait fish down by it and it would eat it. An excellent lil creature, and very smart. We put a fish in a mason jar once and screwed the lid on, the Octopus opened that jar to get the fish, that octopus was a good lil friend. That was over 50 years ago, I hope it is doing well. And I don't think they actually know how long an Octopus lives, just like sharks, an oceanographer told me they really don't know much about octopus, they are an inigma in a way,,,🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙❤❤❤❤❤😮😊

I think he needs to change his coffee machine. It's much slower at making coffee than before.

Deep sea creatures are larger because of the cold. It's the square-cube law. Heat exchange (i.e. loss) is proportional to size squared, but heat production and capacity are proportional to size cubed. The bigger you are, the better you are at producing and retaining your body heat.

Did I miss the part where he says, What Happens If Octopuses Don't Die Before the Age of 5.

So basically you're saying that the kraken could be real.

Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and a doughnut-shaped brain. But these aren't even the most unusual things about them! Known for their otherworldly look and remarkable intelligence, octopuses continue to reveal astonishing qualities, abilities and behaviour.

Octopi... Our teachers were so Pushy about it. But now apparently anything goes. Life isn't fair.

I’m from Tacoma, Washington in the States and, there’s a tale that a colossal octopus/squid lives in the ruins of the old Narrows Bridge.

6:21 it looks so content there.

Other countries seeing a giant octopus: *It's a kraken* 😱 Japan: *Meat* 🤤

A thirty foot long, 600 pound octopus is a man-eater without a doubt! We just haven't seen it or recorded it. The smallest octopus at around 5 inches and less than a pound is the blue ringed octopus and it's far deadlier than the biggest octopus! 🦑

If octopuses lived past 5 we would all be in trouble. They’d rule the world. Well maybe cuttlefish would and octopus would be their right hand man.

They only live 2 to 5 years, but are intelligent creatures.

@1:00 Mr. Krabs and company not having the best of days

Imagine the world if octopus lived decades like primates! What kind of societies would they create?!

@9:40 Female tremo octopus: Is it in yet? Male tremo octopus: Very funny.

Octopai, so majestic and elegant

"With ocean temperatures rising, you know why..." I never get tired of the trace-CO2-is-a-temperature-control-knob narrative.

The metric system was created in France and implemented in 1795. It does lend itself to scientific notation, being base 10.

Still waiting on an answer to the question posed in the title. Those cold water outliers aside, what happens if octopuses survive beyond their standard mating cycle/life span without mating?

This was very interesting. I'm a cephalopod fan and learned some new things today. Thank you, Steve, for uploading.

I think of "hit the like button'' like the game kids play with daisies. The first time I hit the like button. The second time I hear "hit the like" I hit the dislike or thumbs down button. Game on

These boi’s are impressive with their camouflage 🐙😎👍

I’d beat up that like button before even watching your videos because I know your videos in your content are very educational and very good on many levels. I'm just saying!.

on one of your projects or ventures, I'd be interested to have you guys interview each other.. -some day. I really enjoy your voice, personality, writing and presentations on a few channels I've discovered you on.. just "thank you" for keeping the standard, and the presence online..

Some of us like videos for good content, and dislike for bad. Watop is one of the most subtle requestor of likes and just because he said it twice doesn’t make a solid content bad.

There's that slurp! Hi Steve! Great information, I didn't know about their age, growth and temperature differences! Thank you for sharing all the information! There's always an exception!

I was in Baja diving off the coast and saw a octopus double my size and I am 5-6 180pounds

The graphic of the octopus Tinder was pretty fantastic.

I love your videos and octopi so much, keep up the great work! More animals please 🥳

Thanks James, we still use imperial sizes and appreciate the non-metric choice.

>sees interesting subject >sees WATOP >Immediately looses interest

another video awesomely done!

I wish they would live as long as humans. I think if they did they’d probably develop complex culture and we might have another intelligent species to converse with. Might need to stop eating calamari though that’s a downside..

Can you do an episode where all measurements are in ridiculous things like elephants, pencils, tv remotes etc

Deep sea Octopusses are only seeming smaller. The water pressure at one mile is oppressive and Octo’s realise their actual size after equalised and decompressed at shallower depths. Love Octos.🐙

30 feet and 600 pounds are incredibly large for an octopus. Damn didn't know that. That specimen should even be able to attack a human.

I would ask the octopus what they prefer, however I wouldn’t worry about it, octopus are very intelligent and almost certainly can make the Fahrenheit to Metric conversions in their head pretty quick 👍

30ft across and can be found near japan, this is making me think that this is how tentacles became a genre

Even though it's mentioned but not pointed out, another factor for the deep-sea gigantism is the "oxygen-rich waters". Almost EVERYTHING grows bigger in situations like that. That's why we had two-foot dragonflies in ancient times. More available oxygen. 😳

Imagine if there was an octopus that survived and lived in the ocean of either the North or South Pole. It could be as huge as the octopus from the movie "It Came From Beneath The Sea."

Freedom measurements are best!

Cold water always makes bigger critters. They live longer, so they grow bigger.

The fact that every video I see has someone commenting about how they don't like the "hit the like button" thing is insane 😭 Like I empathize but if you're really that bothered just ignore it and don't do anything lol, or find a different channel and watch that for a little while before coming back or something Anyways!! Love this video, octopuses are my favorite animal :3

Sand can be quite beautiful when magnified.

As far as the bumps on the smaller octopi, I would guess that they are the same(ish) mass, but rather the pressure requires them to adjust their skin to keep the pressure manageable... octopi have a muscle that provides them the ability to manipulate their skin in all kinds of wild and bizarre ways, but an octopus under less pressure wouldn't need to use this all the time. (for example, the blob fish explodes once it leaves the depths of the ocean). what would be interesting to see, is whether these octopi can safely travel the mile difference in depths without the pressure change killing them (even if slowly). that would confirm the hypothesis 😁

Do we secretly bio-engineer giant animals? And if so, why not?

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cold water makes my "octopi" shrink.

Some of the species are like turtles 🐢, they always return to the place they are born to reproduce!!!!

Just like everything about all life. Location means everything.

its amazing how you have said ocotopuses so many times even though its not a word the correct word is octopi

I always thought octopus live for hundreds of years.

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Experiment needed. Catch a normally small octopus, put it in a cooler tank and feed it more than it's normal routine diet. I wonder if the octopus will grow larger and live longer than it's normal life span and if mated, will it's offspring be larger?🤔

They say octopuse will replace humans as the dominate species. Therefor I declare War on the Octopus!

Ohh, to be a male octopus, where size doesn't matter. 😊

No Octopus is bigger than one featured in Jimmy Neutron 😂

could the bumps and skin defects be from the pressure of the depth?

Good vides

I would bet all the bumps is in some way a sensory thing, like for currents or electromagnetic detection in the deep.

So basically octopuses are like lizards: space and age make them big albeit opposite in temperature issues.

Hey earliest I've ever been

so youre telling me that on cold ocean planets, there could be massive intelligent octopi?

Yes

Take a shot every time he says “octopuses” lol

Besides generating more body heat. Is there more oxygen compressed into the water at that depth also?? I honestly wouldn't know. but I do know that higher oxygen % is 1 reason land animals used to be so big.

CAN YOU PLEASE USE METRIC SYSTEM SO NON AMERICANS UNDERSTAND TOO? I mean, if you do it on purpose to not use it, I get it, it s stupid but I get it, but if you didn t think about it..just please do it.

Definitely a frozen in Kraken Antarctica then.

Sounds like an energy spent thing. Seems like a quantum problem

Hmmm, I choose to grow bigger and stay in the deep. Yes, I think I'll do that...

3:09 "Preferred temperature for common Octopuses ranges between 59 & 60 degrees Fahrenheit"..... If it is that fussy it's in a world of hurt once "global warming" truly kicks in!

Metric System, please. It's a pain to follow all those Fanrenheits, inches, feet, etc.

How is no one going crazy everytime he says “octopuses” instead of octopi

Makes sense. They say they spotted to kraken in Antarctic. They grow bigger in cold water. It could have been true.

Fun fact: the plural form of octopus is octopi

It probably put itself in the jug and closed the lid there tons of videos showing them do this in all types of jars and jugs etc.

The coffee slurp is disgusting.

You learn the answer to the title by listening to the facts given and hypothesize.

Yall heard it here size doesn't matter

What were your sources? For differences in size, you provided most of the clues, but the conclusions were off. Size is a function of a) surface area (squared) to volume (cubed) ratio, so bigger means able to keep heat created by metabolism; oxygen variability (more = larger); and food is necessary for size, but the ocean floor is rich with this (not the opposite as stated, which is true only if you’re a pant needing sunlight) as it literally falls down in abundance as organisms die above.

Once on Discovery channel they said that octopus can double its size every 3 months if has enough food. Therefore if it lives for long enough... who knows from where fairy tales about Kraken come.... I ponder if there's relation in effectiveness of digestion of proteins and volume of oxygene contained in sea water. Colder deeper water contains more oxygen that supports metabolism and growth meanwhile warmer water closer to surface contains less oxygen in tropic seas. Also the water pressure in deep ocean is factor supporting need of big body that can handle everything related, physics as well as chemistry, to travel from depth to surface and back. Some cephalopods have ammonia in their body by nature. If they get in warmer water it kills them. They must remain in cold water to avoid lethal chemical reaction of ammonia with warm solt water. Experts of astro-biology claim that cephalopods are so exceptional and extraordinary form of life to all other species that probability of their extraterrestrial origin is very high. It's not their fully developed embryo what they suppose to come passengering an asteroid but amino acids which might fall into ocean billions years ago and evolve into species with abilities like no other.

"With ocean temperatures rising...you know why..." No, I don't know why. Why?

Hmmmm... cold water "makes" octopuses bigger? Maybe scientists "suggestions" shouldn't be presented as causal/factual. That's some specious science.

Temperature range of 59 to 60 degrees? That’s not exactly a range.

They become Kaiju if they survive for so long 😅

Then in the depths of the Ocean where man can't go yet .U quote..Clash of the Titans."Unleash the Kraken"..!!!.. good luck exploring.

Why do you keep changing the titles of your videos?

According to this video the Giant Pacific Octopus lives in the Atlantic : )

in the dinosaour days, there were giant animals with a brain size of a pigeon glands. body size means nothing.

Octopus or octopi ?? Meaning plural

I'm and American and I much prefer the Imperial system over metric, but when something weighs 0.03 ounces, please feel free to use grams.

My monopus shrinks in cold water!

the giant size has nothing to do with Fukushima...really nothing :D

something changed with this account i cant put my finger on it

Scientific information without metric units is a big no-no to me 😥

Wondering if the bumpy skin (~8.50 into feed) is an echolocation defense against hunters such as whales or dolphins. Suggestions and comments welcomed.