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Octopus scrambles on land to eat a crab...
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I agree with the girl's comment
fstbttms
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When I lived on Maui I saw an eel come out of the water and well up onto a beach to get at a bag of frozen peas (for feeding fish) that some tourist had left behind. How the eel knew the peas were there, I'll never know. Have a pic of it around here somewhere...
What a very fortunate capture by the videographer. 
KevinNM
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You don't see that every day. :cool2:
CT-Rich
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Awesome video!!
Not quite jumping out of the water on land to capture a crab, but close:
[video=youtube;oBrwgUFHXQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrwgUFHXQg[/video]
[video=youtube;oBrwgUFHXQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrwgUFHXQg[/video]
ams511
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Years ago a friend of mine used to have several marine aquariums, one of which housed an octopus. It was so smart it would actually crawl out of its tank at night to another one to eat the fish and then crawl back. My friend used to wonder why the floor was wet in the mornings and why the fish were disappearing. The mystery was solved when she came back late one evening and caught the octopus outside the fish tank. They are very smart. I still remember watching an old Cousteau film where the octopus could unscrew a mason jar to get at a lobster or crab the divers placed in the jar.
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