![]() The 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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