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 ...
Caption: An octopus cyanea hunting with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish (‘blue goatfish’) on the other. An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Octopuses normally hunt alone, but footage captured by divers has revealed that they can collaborate with fish to find their next meal. The videos, described today in Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, ...
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 ...
Octopuses work together with fish to hunt – and the way they share decisions is surprisingly complex
Culum Brown does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
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