Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles
19:00 24 March 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Emma Young
If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger
without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms,
is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on
the other two.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7194
Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 24 March 2005
BERKELEY – Two species of tropical octopus have learned a neat trick
to avoid predators — they lift up six of their arms and walk backward
on the other two.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml
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