Sarcastic Fringehead Fights For Territory | Life | BBC Earth

The sarcastic fringehead plays no games when it comes to defending its territory, making it a particularly quarrelsome neighbour.

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[NoteFlakez]

The sun piercing through the water like that is beautiful

[jskd]

That fish is the physical embodiment of the term "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

[jajrhejdjskdkdk]

every time I watch a documentary I secretly hope I'm about to hear David Attenboroughs voice

[lushpush]

Sarcastic fringehead: Wow, you must be quite popular with the ladies with those looks
Octopus: thanks I needed that
Sarcastic fringehead: I WAS JOKING

[JohnSmith-vghb]

"What are you gonna do, invade my territory? Oh wow you're _so_ scary"

[culbinator]

I’m pretty much an animal video addict and this is one of the best I’ve ever seen. What a creature! They’re like the bearded dragons of the sea.

[Caine_House]

1:40 The Octopus is like "Put 'em up son."

[friendoftherese]

What a wonderfully weird name: Sarcastic Fringehead. Sounds like a band.

[mjames]

*Sarcastic Fringehead:* "Oh, hey, why don't you come into my shell?? I _totally_ won't eat you..."

[dominicg]

“Because of the shortage of living space, there are constant boundary disputes”
sounds like California housing crisis alright.

[MJ-eyjx]

We looking in the skies for aliens when they are all in the sea.. amazing looking creatures.

[y_fam_goeglyd]

Whoever named that species is a genius. It's one of my favourite Attenborough scenes of all time, just because the fish and their name are so silly and well-matched.

[dawidjagusiak]

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.” G. K. Chesterton

[donishagrenardo]

The sound effects make it sound like a old Chinese movie between the octopus and the fish💀

[colincampbell]

When it opens its mouth wide it looks like the Demogorgon

[moonbound]

When the two fringheads started fighting, i was like
"What am i even looking at?"

[yahikokurotama]

The beginning of this vid is beautiful! When both of the species fight its like an alien fight.

[ladymusiclover]

When it opens its mouth, it's like that scene from Jurassic Park 😭

[sam]

I thought the fish was actually sarcastic...

[thomasfholland]

All those times I’ve scuba dived in the kelp beds off the California coast and I never managed to see one of these guys!! BBC always manages to impress me.