Despite what assumptions you may have made about Carnivorous Tree Octopi, they are not all bad. Many a time they've ripped off a chunk of meat and fed it to a small, watery-eyed creature. They take great pains to make the death of their victims swift and painless. Their suction cups excrete an anaesthetic agent on contact, and the octopus' vicious beak generally kills in one chomp.
In one incredible case of kindness, an octopus climbed down from its tree and, aware of its own ability to regenerate, used its beak to bite off one of its tentacles. Then, it offered its tentacle to a drowning man in a man-made lake. The thankful individual grasped it and was hoisted onto the grass.
Perhaps the most extreme case of all, however, occurred one bleak night in Chicago. Emerging from a nearby forest, an octopus slithered into a factory. After making quick work of a few straggling workers, the octopus manuevered its tentacles and granted itself access to a prominently located cash register, apparently kept loaded in the factory.
Holding the bundles of hundreds in three of its eight tentacles, it crawled back out of the factory and into the forest.
Two weeks later, an amount equal to the amount stolen was anonymously donated to UNICEF.
And that wasn't the first time UNICEF had received anonymous donations. |
