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Topic: Camouflaged octopuses 'walk'
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Amy
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posted 26 March 2005 03:03 PM
Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles quote:
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.Snip! Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
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