Masters Of Camouflage

[Limor Wolf]

What an amazing video! it presents the complete ability of an octopus (as well as squid and catllefish) to change its appearence:

"When marine biologist Roger Hanlon captured the first scene in this video he started screaming. (If you need to see it again, here's the raw footage (http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10398).) Hanlon, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, studies camouflage in cephalopods--squid, cuttlefish and octopus. They are masters of optical illusion. These are some of Hanlon's top video picks of sea creatures going in and out of hiding."


http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10397

[vibrations]

Awesome, really, there is so many projects out there in a military world and try to mimic this skin. And very low success. Thank you very much for this video.

[NeverMind]

I always find it highly interesting HOW animals develop this - I mean, which part of their Being identified - in their ancestors. i.e. earlier in the process of evolution - "blending in" as the right strategy (it's not as self-evident as it may appear!) and HOW did they proceed to do that? Which part of their Being processed and implemented that?

Not quite as impressive as the abilities demonstrated in the video, of course, but I remember observing sparrows (something I do very often :-)) in a semi-desert environment. They were actually a lot "blonder" than those in my city environment.
The only reason I could see was that there were rocks all around, so their environment was more "beige" than the more varied and greener environment in my home town.
So the local sparrows became "blonder" over time. :)

[NeverMind]

I don't normally do this (bump threads), but I really think this video deserves a wider audience. :-)

[Mark]

Wow, amazing video! Never seen a good vid explaining their ability to camo. Thanks!

[NeverMind]

Wow, amazing video! Never seen a good vid explaining their ability to camo. Thanks!


Yes, and I don't think many people even understand the wider implications of this phenomenon....
Really, people: THINK. :-)

Personally I think there should be a section for "educational" material, and this thread, I think, should be moved there.
Because if it isn't, people will forget about it when it gets buried and disappears from view.

[Limor Wolf]

I agree Nevermind,what was on my mind while watching this was the posibility of shapeshifting,as we often hear in certain contexts when it comes to ET's,and here is a fine and quite incrediable example from nature.absolutely profound!

[conk]

Saw a program about octopuses and how intelligent they are. The researchers placed what the octopus would recognize as food in a glass jar. They screwed the cap on and placed it near the octopus' territory. Soon the octopus swam around and around the jar, then simply unscrewed the cap! How in the heck did it know how to do that?

Thanks for the camo video. Very good.

[Mark]

Squids are real intelligent too. Those Humbolts have glowing parts that seem to go on and off in patterns that approximate a language. They don't mind eating people either. Nice neighbors. Here's an Octopus vid about the unscrewing trick that apparently they all can do:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HErGRx_XcFE

[Limor Wolf]

The video talks about the three:Octopus,squid and catllefish,that can shapshift their skin color/texture,and overall appearence.
What kind of consciousness do they have? what happens inside their body cells in response to the change in their surrounding,how can they actually change matter by feeling a threat coming,how come they have controll on colors when they themselvs are considered to be color blind?

Mmmm...I know it will sound strange,but what does it say about our own potential,if at all?! :)

Thanks for the Octopus & jar video.very interesting.

[NeverMind]

I agree Nevermind,what was on my mind while watching this was the posibility of shapeshifting,as we often hear in certain contexts when it comes to ET's,and here is a fine and quite incrediable example from nature.absolutely profound!

The term - "shapeshifting" - may sound suspect, not to mention ridiculous, to many; but the phenomenon itself is not at all far-fetched.
No time to go into detail now, but I will say that, in my opinion, the only block that effectively prevents more fluidity of shape and appearance is our good old rational mind.

If we let it. :-)

[NeverMind]

What kind of consciousness do they have? what happens inside their body cells in response to the change in their surrounding,how can they actually change matter by feeling a threat coming,how come they have controll on colors when they themselvs are considered to be color blind?

Exactly. That's why I find this so endlessly fascinating.
They are telling us something -- hidden in plain sight, if you will -- something immensely relevant to us.
But humans -- all too many of them -- are too obtuse to even notice certain questions.


I know it will sound strange,but what does it say about our potential us,if at all?! :)

It doesn't sound strange at all.
If anything, what I find strange is that people do not appear to be considering these things as often or as seriously as they should.

[Limor Wolf]

Here is another master,though not in means of shape but in color - The Chameleon.
I can't help but think about the celular ability to shapeshift.
does anyone knows how it works?

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/47162/Unbelievable_chameleon_camoflage/

[Tony]

Well, the answer is quite simple if you consider reincarnation.
We have had infinite lives going from this form to that form.

Obviously someone watched a video in a previous incarnation about an octopus unscrewing a jar.
And remembered it in this one, as they had taken the form of an octopus!

It's quite straight forward;) .....think of how many Avalonians have Velociraptor brains!!!

[NeverMind]

I can't help but think about the celular ability to shapeshift.
does anyone knows how it works?

I know this won't be of much help, but I know I saw a fantastic thread somewhere, on some other website.
I browse much too much for my own good, so I don't remember the website, I only remember it had "shape-shifting" in its title.
And that I saw it maybe three years ago. It is not a new thread.
But I think I found among the first twenty results on Google (which I used back then) when searching for "shape shifting".

I think it is about affinity - like much of what goes on in the natural (and perhaps super-natural) realm.

And I know I am going to regret this, but I can tell you, with a straight face - not joking at all - that, however far-fetched this may sound, I have very good reason to believe that once I became invisible to the human eye for a minute or so. The people I was with had no reason to pretend they did not see me; a prank is out of the question. Yet they all behaved as if I weren't there for a few seconds, perhaps a little less than a minute, whereupon they were startled out of their wits to hear me talk - even though I had been there all the time.

Believe me, "I am invisible" is not a thought that would naturally occur to me. :)
But after racking my brain, I cannot see what else could have been.

Perhaps it is of interest that it happened at a certain "sacred place".
But I suspect it was my own affinity to that place that triggered..... whatever it was.