3/30/2024 0 Comments The octopus teacherThe octopus and its protective “shell suit” featured in the “Green Seas” episode, explained by David Attenborough as never-before-seen behaviour.įoster collaborated on shooting the sequence with his friend, Blue Planet 2 cameraman Roger Horrocks. Viewers of the BBC’s Blue Planet 2 may recognise the footage. It transpires to be a common octopus, hiding in plain sight. One day, he comes across an odd jumble of shells on the sea floor. Wanting to reconnect with nature after burning out with work, film-maker and naturalist Craig Foster starts freediving daily in the undersea kelp forests off Cape Town. That otherness is at the heart of our fascination with octopuses: can we even aspire to understand something so foreign? A new Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, follows one man’s attempt. In many ways, the octopus is a tough proposition: a soft-bodied mollusc that carries the bulk of its brain in its arms, that can render itself solid without a skeleton or liquid despite its beak, that evolved separately from nearly every other organism on Earth. My Octopus Teacher is available on Netflix from 7 September 2020
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