Assertion: octopus | /r/CapableOf | change color
Facets:
value: to hide their surroundings
type: PURPOSE
value: quickly
type: MANNER
value: to disguise itself
type: PURPOSE
value: by expanding or contracting the cells
type: MANNER
value: within a blink of an eye
type: TEMPORAL
value: to camouflage
type: PURPOSE
value: in order to blend
type: PURPOSE
value: depending on its surroundings
type: OTHER
value: in order to camouflage themselves
type: PURPOSE
value: to avoid detection
type: PURPOSE
value: like other mimics
type: OTHER
value: to match the sea bed
type: PURPOSE
value: in 1 second
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Octopuses can also change color to hide and match their surroundings.
text: An octopus can change its color in under 1 second!
text: Octopus can change their coloring to blend into the surroundings for protection.
text: The octopus can change colour to match the sea bed or suddenly flash the bright blue rings to startle predators.
text: Did you know an octopus can change the color and the texture of its skin, and undo the lids of screw-top jars?
text: Like other mimics, the octopus changes its coloring to disguise itself.
text: Not only can they change color, but they can adapt to the different patterns and textures found in their environment.
text: Octopuses are able to change color at will both for camouflage and for communication.
text: An octopus will change color to avoid detection either by predators or by potential prey.
text: The incredible video below shows an octopus (not a common octopus) changing color as it hunts:
text: Their skin contains cells called chromatophores that allow the octopus to change color and pattern.
text: They can change color to blend in with their surroundings and can squirt ink to hide from enemies.
text: And it can change color, too.
text: Many octopuses can change color in order to camouflage themselves against their background.
text: Octopuses can also change color to hide and match their surroundings.
text: An octopus can change color quickly depending on its surroundings or its mood.
text: An octopus can change its shape and color to blend in with its surroundings.
text: A master of disguise, the octopus can change color and blend into its environment in seconds.
text: By expanding or contracting the cells, octopuses can quickly change color and ultimately blend into their environment.
text: They change color.
text: The octopus can change color to camouflage itself and to reflect its mood.
text: Octopuses can change color.
text: They can change colors easily within a blink of an eye.
text: The octopus changes colors by expanding or contracting the cells that contain the pigment.
text: Chromatophores, which are specialized cells in the skin, allow these octopuses to change colors in order to blend in with their background and disguise themselves from predators and prey.
text: When the octopus changes its color and shapes its eight legs to look like spines, it is indeed conceivable that to the eyes of a potential predator, what might otherwise look like suitable prey, appears in fact as a highly venomous creature that should be avoided.
text: It likes to stay in the sea floor and change its color to camouflage.
text: Octopus can change their coloring to blend into the surroundings for protection.