Many of you requested a reaction video with a wig in the comments section of previous episodes. This seemed like a great idea so we took a bright pink wig, rinsed it thoroughly, put it on a mannequin head, and lowered it into the observation tank with our octopus.
We expected him to carefully explore the wig. Some of us even went as far as predicting that our octopus would pull the wig off of the mannequin head. This was definitely not the case. It soon became evident that our octopus actually disliked touching the hair.
His reaction to the wig was surprising. We got a very similar reaction to this same wig while observing another octopus. He slowly approached and then pulled away as soon as he felt the wig. Similar to what we see in this video. Naturally, the next step was to try a different wig. The octopus was once again hesitant to touch or explore further.
