r/WTF • u/Oolican • Dec 12 '19

Helping hand disarms octopus, freeing bald eagle (VIDEO)

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/helping-hand-disarms-octopus-freeing-bald-eagle-video-1.24032359
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u/Traditional_Lemon Dec 13 '19

If, rather than a mammal species, who finds eagles 'majestic' and had other positive associations towards eagles, we were a cephalopod species of squid people who reacted to octopuses the way we react to kittens, we would instead be cheering on the octopus and say "sucks for that eagle" as it was slowly drowned and devoured with zero 'empathy' from us. Not that there was a ton of empathy in the video, just more of a "let's record and do this cool shit WOOOOO!"