Field guide No. 1151

An octopus rests in a shallow tide pool at dusk while a dark octopus-shaped shadow climbs the rock wall behind it. One of them is acting independently.

Octopus and the climbing shadow

The shadow had somewhere to be.

An octopus rests in a shallow tide pool at dusk while a dark octopus-shaped shadow climbs the rock wall behind it. One of them is acting independently.

Field noteThe shadow climbs the rock wall while its octopus rests in the pool; one of them is on a schedule.

Specimen
No. 1151
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A tide pool at dusk, shadows obedient.
Nearest existing relative
a resting octopus in a rock pool.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics