Octopuses Throw Objects At Each Other Researchers Observe Science
Researchers studying Octopus tetricus, the common Sydney octopus, have filmed the cephalopods picking up debris on their front arms and webbing and flinging it away from their bodies using water ejected from their siphon – the latter shifted between behind their arms for this purpose. . While the team says these “throws” appear to be used by the octopuses to clean the bed or to pull off the shells after eating, they have also recorded the creatures hitting other octopuses with material in what appear to be deliberate strikes ....