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All sorts of animals.

She basically has to do geometry

Then you just saw the shark swimming on the periphery, picking up her scent.

And I was thinking, "Well, how long before something happens with these animals?"

an incredible confidence,

Just the pure magnificence of her.

All I could do at the time was just think of her.

burnt in my memory, this, like, huge shark just suddenly approaching her.

She sees this shiny new thing in the forest.

and they'd finish her off that night.

and try and read as many scientific papers as possible.

you're being now hunted by a liquid animal.

After a while, she was just carrying on with her normal activities,

And this is how she works.

Somehow, she realizes this thing is not dangerous,

A very fragile, liquid, soft animal

A lot of the scavengers coming to feed on her.

And I had this deep longing to be inside that world.

You get to be able to hold your breath for longer.

According to the literature, octopus are supposed to be a nocturnal species.

All those eggs hatched.

And that's when she left the den and got a real fright...

like an octopus.

And then you'd just come up absolutely blank. There's nothing.

You're in touch with this wild place, and it's speaking to you.

And then this almost felt, psychologically, like I was...

These incredible sounds of the humpback whales

I realized, "This is this crazy thing I saw...

You are crossing a line

is when it comes out the den

and then folding her arms

So I'm looking at kills. I'm looking at little marks, diggings in the sand,

to all the other animals, predator and prey,

Octopus vulgaris is the scientific name.

and seeing this really strange thing.

This is not good.

and then picked up my camera again

so this incredibly clever animal retreats to the shallows,

You realize that every one is very important.

O is for Octopus

[suspenseful music playing]

I want to be more like an amphibious animal.

And that was very frustrating at first, so difficult to discern.

But I was just too overcome

She's got no mother or father to teach her anything. She's alone.

This is like a giant underwater brain operating over millions of years.