Holding both his 2-year-old daughter and a phone that was set to record, Lance Karlson saw the octopus and the sea gull sizing each other up. “Oh, golly,” he said, with little apparent panic at the near miss. He regretted that subdued reaction, he said in an interview on Friday, as soon as he posted the video of the octopus on Instagram, a post that would later attract viewers far and wide and international media coverage. “Oh that sounds so cheesy, almost British,” he said. I had my daughter in my arms, so I wasn’t going to swear.”

Source: International New York Times April 02, 2021 17:48 UTC