Octopus capturing blacksmith and carrying it off for dinner

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drbill

drbill

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On a night dive two nights ago I filmed this octopus for about 5 minutes. During that time it captured one or possibly two blacksmith (a local damsel fish) hiding in the reef, and carried at least one of them off to a hole where it could dine on it in privacy:

[video=youtube;UYKi8k-odQs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKi8k-odQs&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
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