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  tonmo

• Mar 11, 2020

Video loads OK from here! Cool vid! Hope you get some ID support, I'll try to summon some help.

 

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  DWhatley

• Mar 11, 2020

possibly Octopus kaurna

 

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  Iochroma

• Mar 12, 2020

Sounds like a good match, including its burrowing behavior.

Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed

Southern sand octopus is first cephalopod found to build underwater hideout by burrowing through quicksand and daubing the walls with mucus

www.newscientist.com

 

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  DWhatley

• Mar 12, 2020

It was the borrowing that made me think of this one but I had to look it up to be sure it matched the local

 

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  Trynn

• Mar 8, 2021

Reminds me of Octopus Minor in the tidal flats of Korea. They burrow into the sand and look very similar. Obviously not the same species, just saying there is a resemblance.