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Octopus Trash Fight is a band waiting to happen. 

The battling octopi “use a sort of inverted jet propulsion” to chuck the shells, videographer Peter Godfrey-Smith explained. They gather up projectiles in their many arms, and then shoot water out of their siphons to give their throws some added oomph.

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“ Lémur couronné _ Crowned lemur _ (Eulemur coronatus) est un primate de la famille des lémuridés.
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Lémur couronné _ Crowned lemur _ (Eulemur coronatus) est un primate de la famille des lémuridés.

Image gratuite sur Pixabay

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“ While Victor Huang was free-diving in the waters off the coast of New Zealand he encountered an octopus that took a liking to his shiny new waterproof camera. The cheeky cephalopod turned out to be a kleptopus as it immediately...
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“ While Victor Huang was free-diving in the waters off the coast of New Zealand he encountered an octopus that took a liking to his shiny new waterproof camera. The cheeky cephalopod turned out to be a kleptopus as it immediately...
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“ While Victor Huang was free-diving in the waters off the coast of New Zealand he encountered an octopus that took a liking to his shiny new waterproof camera. The cheeky cephalopod turned out to be a kleptopus as it immediately...
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While Victor Huang was free-diving in the waters off the coast of New Zealand he encountered an octopus that took a liking to his shiny new waterproof camera. The cheeky cephalopod turned out to be a kleptopus as it immediately snatched the camera out of Huang’s hand and swam away. But that was just the beginning of their shared undersea adventure. Watch this video, shot by both human and octopus, to learn the entire story:

[via Gizmodo]

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I really need to redub this with more appropriately ominous audio…

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“ The pink whipray (Himantura fai) is the only species of stingray know to engage in this sort of piggybacking behavior. In fact, multiples pink whiprays piggyback on others rays of the same species, and this is...
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The pink whipray (Himantura fai) is the only species of stingray know to engage in this sort of piggybacking behavior. In fact, multiples pink whiprays piggyback on others rays of the same species, and this is unexpected, elasmobranch, in general only interact when they try to eat each other.

The pink whipray is a large ray that occurs in coastal soft-sediment habitats in the Indian Ocean.

But apparently they love it, and pink whipray piggyback in another species. Pictures don’t lie.

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The reasons for this behaviour are unknown, one possibility is that piggybacking is a predator defence strategy that allows the smaller rays to appear larger than they actually are and breaks up silhouettes on which predators can focus. There may also be some hydrodynamic or foraging advantage to the smaller rays in travelling with larger species in this manner, although this does not explain why these rays piggyback on other rays resting on the seabed or at cleaning stations. 

  • Photo b)  Pink whiprays piggybacking on a blotched fantail ray (Taeniurops meyeni) at a cleaning station.
  • Reference: Meekan et al. 2016. The piggybacking stingray Coral Reef

these sea pancake know how to party

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aaaw this little guy 

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“ Krista Nicholson, a Murdoch University Ph.D. candidate, captured photos of the dolphin using its nose to pick the octopus out of the water and pop it into the air as if playing with it.
(More: Weather, Virus Taking Its Toll On Green Sea...
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“ Krista Nicholson, a Murdoch University Ph.D. candidate, captured photos of the dolphin using its nose to pick the octopus out of the water and pop it into the air as if playing with it.
(More: Weather, Virus Taking Its Toll On Green Sea...
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“ Krista Nicholson, a Murdoch University Ph.D. candidate, captured photos of the dolphin using its nose to pick the octopus out of the water and pop it into the air as if playing with it.
(More: Weather, Virus Taking Its Toll On Green Sea...
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“ Krista Nicholson, a Murdoch University Ph.D. candidate, captured photos of the dolphin using its nose to pick the octopus out of the water and pop it into the air as if playing with it.
(More: Weather, Virus Taking Its Toll On Green Sea...
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0ct0pus:

Krista Nicholson, a Murdoch University Ph.D. candidate, captured photos of the dolphin using its nose to pick the octopus out of the water and pop it into the air as if playing with it.

(More: Weather, Virus Taking Its Toll On Green Sea Turtles)

“It was absolutely spectacular to watch,” Nicholson told WA Today. “It would let it float for a while, then come back and grab it by a tentacle and throw it into the air.”

“It’s not unheard of for dolphins to do this, but it’s not a regular occurrence,” she later told the Mandurah Coastal Times.

Nicholson also added that although dolphins aren’t known for eating octopuses, there are records of this playful type of behavior in other areas of the world.

Source: https://weather.com/science/nature/news/dolphin-plays-with-unfortunate-octopus

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