The Mastermind: An Octopus Heist

Radiolab for Kids

WNYC

Parenting, Education For Kids, Stem, Education, Pets & Animals, Radiolab, Podcast, Storytelling, Children, Kids & Family, Kids, Science, Terrestrials, Educational, Nature, Family-friendly, Fun, Animals

4.4 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors. SPOILER: The creature is an octopus! Author Sy Montgomery tells the story of one octopus named Inky who makes us question who we consider intelligent (and kissable) in the animal kingdom. Learn about the storytellers, listen to music, and dig deeper into the stories you hear on Terrestrials with activities you can do at home or in the classroom on our website, Terrestrialspodcast.org. Find MORE original Terrestrials fun on Youtube. And badger us on Social Media: @radiolab and #TerrestrialsPodcast Terrestrials is a production of WNYC Studios, created by Lulu Miller. This episode is produced by Ana González, Alan Goffinski and Lulu Miller. Original Music by Alan Goffinski. Help from Suzie Lechtenberg, Sarah Sandbach, Natalia Ramirez, and Sarita Bhatt. Fact-check by Diane Kelley. Sound design by Mira Burt-Wintonick with additional engineering by Joe Plourde. Our storyteller this week is Sy Montgomery. Transcription by Caleb Codding. Our advisors are Theanne Griffith, Aliyah Elijah, Dominique Shabazz, John Green, Liza Steinberg-Demby, Tara Welty, and Alice Wong. Terrestrials is supported in part by Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation.

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0:00.0	Listen to Support it, WNY studios.
0:07.0	Listen to Support it, W NYC Studios.
0:18.0	3, 2, 1.
0:21.0	Imagine you are a liquid creature.
0:27.0	No bones, and you are so pliable that you can literally pour your body through a tiny opening.
0:37.0	You can change colors.
0:39.0	Blue and green and red and yellow and even metallic you can taste with your skin and you have blue blood and you have three hearts and if you're threatened if you feel scared you can shoot ink
1:00.1	into a silhouette in the shape of you.
1:03.0	So the predator is fooled into believing you're still there.
1:08.0	Now look down at your arms and watch them slowly sprouting into eight.
1:14.6	You are an octopus now.
1:19.6	Okay, now is where I make you sing the theme song with me. Okay.
1:25.4	Terrestrials.
1:28.4	We are not the worst. We are the bestial. You got it. Where we are out of Brestrials.
1:34.0	You got it.
1:35.0	I don't know, man.
1:36.7	Terrestrials is a show where we uncover the strangeness waiting right here on earth and sometimes break out into song.
1:43.4	There's so much to discover when you dive down deep.
1:47.4	Terrestrios.
1:49.4	Terrestrios.
1:50.4	So come on and plunging to the sea.
1:54.3	Terrestrials.
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