Under water to get out of the Rain part 3 - Fishing for Octopus

did 4 lesson plans today and I am now confused as to which class is going to learn what and which books are involved. So back to reading for light relief.

The octopus has a flair for inciting repugnance. It changes its texture and colour to impersonate boulders or weed or a slither of slime without substance. Even slime doesn't take this as a compliment. ... Quick as a whip, its arm embraced me, then another and yet more. they could do eight unpleasant things at one. Pulling them off felt as if they were taking my flesh with them.

The octopus is an Einstein among invertebrates. Even hardened researchers recount that they are quick to learn, they come to be fed and their gaze follows you around the room. At least, one of their eyes does because some are right-eyed, others left-eyed. The structure of the octopus eye is almost exactly the same as ours and it is difficult to gaze into it without thinking that a human being is trapped inside. It has the look of sad acceptance of someone transformed into a bag of jelly by witchery and condemned to unhappy octopusdom for ever. 

..He inserted the wire into its mouth and out through the top of its head. It stared at me in sad surprise, as if asking what was I going to do about it. Eventually, seven or eight were skewered on the wire, stacked one about the other, still half alive and pathetically waving goodbye.

This is another creature: the mimic octopus, which I found just now on YouTube. I had never heard of it before; it is very gifted and talented.