[Candace from off screen] Yay, good girl!
I'm so proud of you!
Hi, I'm Candace. I'm an aquarist here at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We're gonna go ahead
and do a giant Pacific octopus 
feeding. But instead of just handing her food,
we're gonna stick it in this jar
and make her work a little bit for it.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is kinda
like smear around the outside of the jar
with some food. And then maybe that'll
motivate her a little bit more to try
and get the food out from the inside. The
giant Pacific octopus is gonna have over
2,000 suckers over its entire body. Each
of the suckers works independently of
the others. It also works independently of
the brain. So each one of these can act
basically as its own little tiny brain.
She is using all of her suckers to smell
and taste and touch. She's gonna start
using all of those senses to kind of
figure out "how am I gonna get to it?"
[Candace from off screen] Yay, good girl!
So right now you can see that she got the lid off inside
and there are arms inside of the jar! And I
think she already got all the food out
as well. And I bet she was feeling pretty
good right now that she got that food!
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