Northern Australia
has the highest tides in the tropics,
which expose vast areas of shoreline.
And here is a truly extraordinary species
of octopus.
Octopuses are marine animals
that live and breathe underwater.
At low tide,
most of the pieces will be imprisoned
in their rocky pools.
But this is no ordinary
octopus.
It’s the only one
specially adapted to walk on land.
It pulls itself
along using the hundreds of tiny suckers
that line its arms.
Hunting for crabs.
It walks from pool to pool,
apart from a rather
startled fish.
This one is empty.
So the octopus moves on.
A rock pool
may seem like a safe refuge,
but the octopus is suckers,
enabling it to move just as stealthily
in water as out of it.
Nowhere is
safe when this octopus is around.
