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Watch This Octopus Use Shells as a Shield - National Geographic

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Start date Apr 24, 2017

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Watch This Octopus Use Shells as a Shield
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The octopus's behavior in the video resembles another octopus we wrote about in 2015, which carried two halves of a coconut shell across the sea floor. Since an octopus is unprotected when it hunts prey, a shell can provide more safety, even if it's ...

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