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Octopuses and fish were just filmed hunting as a team on the reef — and the octopus punches any partner that slacks off, keeping the whole group in line

Off the coast of a coral reef in the Red Sea, an octopus glides across a patch of rubble, eight arms probing every crack. A small entourage of reef fish follows close behind: goatfish hovering near ...
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A Pacific reef octopus was just filmed slipping a rock into a fish’s mouth as the two hunted together — the cleverest cross-species teamwork ever caught

Off the coast of Eilat, Israel, a Pacific day octopus did something no scientist had seen before. Mid-hunt, with a small group of fish swimming alongside it over a coral reef, the octopus picked up a ...