Shared Hunt Between Octopus and Fish - Animal Behavior

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English - December 14, 2021 10:24 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MB
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Some time ago a SCIENTIFIC article came out in which it is reported how octopuses can hunt in groups, punishing their hunting companions.

Exaggeration or truth? Let's talk about..

•“Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea”, 2006. Redouan Bshary, Andrea Hohner, Karim Ait-el-Djoudi, Hans Fricke
• “Multi-species co-operative hunting behaviour in a remote Indian Ocean reef system, Marine and Freshwater”, 2020. Bayley & A. Rose
•Octopus punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events”, 2021. Sampaio E., Seco M.C., Rosa R., Gingi S.