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Watch this piano-playing octopus bang out some blues!

Jennifer Sandlin
Nov 17, 2025
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swallow an octopus

Swedish engineer and musician Mattias Krantz recently bought an octopus from a grocery store, saving it from becoming someone’s dinner. Instead of ending up on a plate, the incredibly lucky (and talented!) octopus, which Krantz named Tako, fulfilled another extraordinary, almost unbelievable destiny — it became a pianist! Now this pian…

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