[Coral-List] Octopus punches fishes

[Eduardo Sampaio]

Hi Ivan,

I've seen the video, people shared it with me on twitter!
Pretty cool stuff, the behavioral flexibility of octopuses (permitted by
their extremely flexible anatomy) is amazing!

Thanks for sharing.
Cheers!

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 18:52, Ivan Steward <ivansteward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eduardo,
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> I'm unable to link the post here as it's from a Linkedin upload I was sent
> by a colleague, but, RPS were doing some recent marine survey work for the
> Star of the South project and setup a BRUV.
>
> There is video of an octopus that took up temporary residence on the end
> of the apparatus. The video shows the octopus reaching out and 'hugging' a
> passing shark - fully immobilising it for a good minute before letting go.
> Several other fish/squid are seen getting involved as well, it's quite an
> interesting/comical scene.
>
> You can probably do a search for it, or find RPS on LinkedIn to view (or I
> can forward to you there if interested).
>
> Remarkable animals for sure.
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 00:16 Eduardo Sampaio via Coral-List, <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to share with you our
>> latest paper showing that octopuses punch fishes during collaborative
>> hunting in coral reefs. This is the first of our ongoing project on these
>> multi-species groups, and both pdf and relevant materials can be found
>> freely available here:
>>
>>  https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3266
>>
>> The videos are the heart of the paper, so I highly recommend checking them
>> out on the Supplemental Information menu.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Eduardo
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