The Octopus in My House - Thu 22 Aug 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007snt
I caught up with this last night - it had been on my back-burner since transmission but, for some reason, I kept putting off viewing .....
When I did get round to the episode, it proved to be a low-key delight - amateurishly entusiastic and gorgeously filmed while being very informative:
A professor develops an extraordinary relationship with an octopus when he invites it to live in his home. The octopus, called Heidi, unravels puzzles, recognises individual humans and even watches TV with the family.
The episode also shows remarkable behaviour from around the world - from the day octopus, which can change colour and texture in a split second, to the coconut octopus, which carries around its own coconut shell to hide in. But most fascinating of all is seeing how Professor David Scheel and his daughter Laurel bond with an animal that has no skeleton, nine brains, three hearts and blue blood running through its veins.
Actually, the Prof's hair is worth watching too - it changes almost as often as Heidi .....