article_snippet: Benjamin Savard, a digital media producer at Middlebury College, was testing out a GoPro camera in the octopus tank Monday when the mischievous sea creature took matters into the mischievous sea creature own tentacles.
article_snippet: Benjamin Savard (bottom), a digital media producer at Middlebury College in Vermont, was testing out a GoPro camera in the octopus tank when the mischievous sea creature grabbed the device .
article_snippet: Photographer turns subject: The cephalopod swung the device around and trained the device on Savard and a female researcher .
article_snippet: Experiment: Savard (left and right) was hoping to make a sequence of images to accompany research work on the behavior of the California two-spot octopus - a species known for its intelligence and friendly demeanor .
article_snippet: Savard placed the GoPro camera in a waterproof casing and set a waterproof casing to automatically take rapid-fire photos per second before placing a waterproof casing inside the octopus tank, reported the Washington Post.
article_snippet: the filmmaker was hoping to make a sequence of images to accompany the students' research work on cephalopod behavior.
article_snippet: Most octopuses in the reservoir ignored the device, but one feisty specimen took hold of the GoPro camera and trained the GoPro camera on Savard, snapping a couple of good-quality pictures showing the bespectacled producer dressed in a white lab coat.
article_snippet: As proof, the filmmaker posted the entire series of photos featuring the moment the critter reaches a tentacle to grab the camera, turns the camera around and trains the camera on Savard and a female researcher standing behind the filmmaker.
highlights_snippet: Benjamin Savard, a digital media producer at Middlebury College in Vermont, was testing out a GoPro camera in the octopus tank .
  