Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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

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

and then picked up my camera again

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

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

and seeing this really strange thing.

You are crossing a line

This is not good.

[suspenseful music playing]

And this is how she works.

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

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

and then folding her arms

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

A lot of the scavengers coming to feed on her.

like an octopus.

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

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

All those eggs hatched.

so this incredibly clever animal retreats to the shallows,

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

These incredible sounds of the humpback whales

I want to be more like an amphibious animal.

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

Somehow, she realizes this thing is not dangerous,

All sorts of animals.

is when it comes out the den

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

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

to all the other animals, predator and prey,

You realize that every one is very important.

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

A very fragile, liquid, soft animal

and they'd finish her off that night.

But I was just too overcome

and try and read as many scientific papers as possible.

an incredible confidence,

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

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

She sees this shiny new thing in the forest.

Octopus vulgaris is the scientific name.

you're being now hunted by a liquid animal.

She basically has to do geometry

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

O is for Octopus

Just the pure magnificence of her.