Movie 1.
This video shows our modified procedure for octopus “hypnosis”, or tonic immobility, its use in electrode implantation in octopus arms, and lastly the octopus's quick recovery from tonic immobility.
Octopus ‘hypnosis’: inducing tonic immobility for studying local sensorimotor responses and arm-sucker coordination
Biology Open 2025. 14:None-None; doi: 10.1242/bio.062082