I think this is a fascinating creature with clearly some very strong emotions just like we do as humans,” he added. Within a minute, a perfect imprint of an octopus tentacle appeared on Karlson’s neck and back. A holidaymaker has divulged how he was attacked by the angriest octopus on an Australian beach. “They are beautiful creatures and I really hope this provokes more interest in octopuses as opposed to fear of them. Karlson said he’d never seen an octopus that close before and watched Netflix documentary “ My Octopus Teacher” after the incident to learn more about the cephalopods. A video showing an octopus lashing out at a man on a beach last month in Western Australia has gone viral. “Like all octopuses it is venomous, but like most it is harmless to humans, with the venoms dramatically more potent on invertebrates like clams and lobster,” he told CNN Friday. Lance Karlson, who shot this footage, told Storyful he spotted the octopus attacking. Lance Karlson was with his 2-year-old daughter at Geographe Bay in Dunsborough when the. An Australian geologist was attacked by an octopus while he was swimming in Western Australia. April 2, 2021, 2:10 AM An octopus lashed out at a beachgoer in Dunsborough, Western Australia on March 18. “The pain went away and more than anything since then, it’s been more the physical hit that was painful… The imprint on my neck in those photos is more from the physical hit, and I guess it makes complete sense when you look at the video I took 20 minutes earlier of that lashing out,” he said.īryan Fry, an associate professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, identified the octopus as a common Octopus vulgaris. A former lifeguard was attacked by an octopus while he was swimming at a beach in Western Australia. Author and geologist Lance Karlson was just casually walking along the beach at Western Australia’s Geographe Bay with his two-year-old daughter when he first saw the octopus attack a seagull.
All his family could grab was Coca-Cola, which his wife poured over his back in the shower and the pain dissipated. A former volunteer lifeguard, Karlson rushed back to his hotel room to find something acidic to put on the wound.
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