Reef Octopus spotted hunting in Bimini marina

During our recent expedition to the Bahamas, our team stopped over in Bimini, where we came across this amazing Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) doing some nighttime hunting. In the video you’ll see the octopus changing color using amazing specialized skin cells known as chromatophores, and expanding its tentacles into a “skirt” to trap small fish and invertebrates so it can eat them. These octopuses are cryptic (hard to see and find) and hunt mostly at night, so it was a rare treat for us to get to see it in action!