An artistic octopus impressed viewers online with her flair for the arts and impressive « painting » abilities.
This artistic octopus gives Pablo Picasso a run for his money. A sweet video of a cephalopod using its tentacles to « paint » on a canvas provided by aquarium caretakers has gone viral online and impressed marine life lovers with her skills. The Florida Aquarium located in Tampa posted the video to their social media accounts on Sunday afternoon. As part of the facility’s Cephalopod Week, the team decided to plan an activity that would stimulate the octopus, identified as Farallon the giant Pacific octopus in an Instagram comments thread. The video starts with one of Farallon’s caretakers showing the camera a canvas dotted with blue paint. In order for Farallon to « paint » without the canvas sustaining water damage, a plastic wrap was placed over top. Farallon swims her way closer to the edge of her tank enclosure and allows her caretaker to place one of her tentacles on the canvas. As the aquarium employee acts as an easel to hold up the canvas, Farallon uses several of her limbs to spread out the paint under the plastic wrap.
