Octopus: Making Contact; a review.

This documentary is a light-hearted insight into the strange and wonderful world of cephalopods or octopi. A marine biologist brings an octopus into his home to study for a year with his family. At first the octopus is skittish until he is fed a little treat of a baby crab, then the octopus realizes that this relationship has potential. His daughter befriends the octopus also and they learn to play together with various objects, and interacting like a pet. It is interesting to note that octopi have the largest brains of the invertabrates and 3 hearts and zero bones in their body. They also can camouflage to their environment by using pigment cells. There are many different types of octopi, and there was even an enclave of octopi that started to live in a community off the coast of Australia which is striking since most of the time they are loners. Often times octopi are notorious for escaping their enclosures at zoos because of their widely acknowledged maleable shape. This was a nice viewing experience, and something I think is good family entertainment. I think it was produced by PBS and is available on Netflix and Kanopy.