She captures the scene of an octopus in full flight leaping onto a crab, wrestling with it on the rocks and eventually pulling it under water.
The Guardian says that this is the first time that this behavior has ever been captured on video.
The paper also quotes Indrisie as saying,
” I didn’t know why I chose to film this crab, but thought I would try and get closer to it but something else beat me to it.” The video has attracted more than 7 million views on YouTube.
Down under, of course, all sorts of strange things go on. Here we have an octopus which can hunt on land. Is this an “Octo-croc” for Crocodile Dundee to hunt? It certainly has the aggression of a crocodile.
Among other interesting facts, Wiki informs us that an octopus actually has three hearts, but it doesn’t show any compassion in this encounter.
In the video, the cctopus is clearly more than ready for a scrap on the rocks with the crustacean critter. It’s certainly a tenacious fighter and appears to be no match for the crab.
What the outcome of the brawl under water is can’t be seen, so we’re left wondering if tentacles beat claws.
Apparently, an octopus has a hard beak, but when it captures its prey it first injects it with paralyzing saliva. After poisoning a crab, it then breaks it up into small edible pieces.
Indrisie, who aptly works as a seafood assistant, is quoted by the Independent as saying,
“We hung around for a while, but I understand octopus flip it open and eat it pretty quick, so I knew it was toast.”
It seems that “Jumping- Jack- Flash- the octopus” isn’t so rare and octopuses frequently like to make a land grab, or in this instance, a land crab.