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Article: Two-armed getaway used by octopuses
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 25, 2005
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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 animals.
Berkeley professor Robert J. Full said Huffard was studying
octopus movement as part of a robotics project. He said the
researchers use examples from nature in designing robots; one project
is to ...