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  • Octopus seen walking on two legs like a human (includes video)

    03/27/2005 3:20:41 PM PST · by Stoat · 52 replies · 20,532+ views
    KATU -2 News (Oregon) / AP ^ | March 25, 2005 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
    Octopus seen walking on two legs like a human   VIDEO   By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae. Two kinds of octopus were seen to use different ways of walking along the sea floor, researchers were reporting in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The movements were discovered by Christine L. Huffard of the University of California, Berkeley, who was studying underwater video camera tapes of the...