Posted here on Tuesday, 2/10/2012.
Monday, October 1, 2012 9:39am PDT
Thieving octopus displays remarkable skills on camera in South Africa
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
The
octopus is highly intelligent and extremely clever, but researchers in
South Africa were still surprised to witness, on videotape, one of the
mollusks stealing a bait canister that had been secured to a chain in
front of an underwater camera. The octopus managed this incredible feat by untying three cable ties, while fighting off a pajama catshark. (The octopus appears at the 1:00 mark of the video posted below, and the shark soon afterward.)
The footage is from earlier this season but science writers only recently began to reveal the nature of the University of Cape Town research, which involves a study of the pea-green waters of False Bay, and the type of critters that exist in a coastal region thought to be over-exploited.
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