In today's 9th episode of Octopus Reacts, our friendly little cephalopod is faced with exploring a hammer. Something he's never seen in the wild.

We placed the hammer in the experiment tank and let our octopus explore it. His reaction was a little uneventful which prompted us to intervene. We thought we would show him how the hammer is used in hopes of him picking it up and maybe using is the way we would. Instead, he proceeded to turn himself into a hammer and mimic the motion. We would love to state conclusively that the octopus is mimicking the hammer in this video, however, this behaviour of stretching himself out like this is something we have seen some of our octopuses do in the past without the presence of the hammer. Still, as you can imagine, we were very excited to see him do this while we showed him how the hammer is used. Was this done intentionally? We can't say for sure. But it sure was a hoot to watch!