The Indonesian Mimic Octopus

A researcher shooting video in Indonesian waters captures a jawfish mimicking an octopus that itself mimics other fish.




As you saw in the above two videos, the mimic octopus is a brazen and audacious creature that got that way after it evolved a complex set of characters.

During a diving trip in Indonesia in July 2011, Godehard Kopp of the University of Göttingen in Germany, filmed a never-before-seen interaction between these two animals. In his video, we see the small and shy black marble jawfish closely following a brazen and audacious mimic octopus whilst it moves across the sandy bottom. The jawfish's markings are very similar to those of the octopus and as you'll see, it is quite difficult to see the fish as swims amongst the octopus's many arms.