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An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...
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Scientists Caught an Octopus ‘Punching’ Fish in the Face — and There’s a Surprising Reason for It
Off the coast of Eilat in Israel, a big blue octopus propels itself forward, flailing its tentacles, with a troop of groupers fish following it. At some point during its hunting trip, the octopus ...
Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...
Upsetting but strangely satisfying new research documents octopuses punching fish during collaborative feeding sessions. The octopuses primarily do it for practical reasons, but sometimes these ...
Octopuses and fish are routinely seen working together on the ocean floor, and now scientists say that the cephalopods are the leaders of the pack. By Elizabeth Preston Elizabeth Preston wrote about ...
Octopuses in the Red Sea often hunt together with other predatory fish—and sometimes hit them. New videos suggest they're keeping fish in line. Day octopuses in the Red Sea team up with up fish to ...
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