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Octopus eats shark in aquarium. video link

#1 Gatortailale

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 10:08 AM

http://www.cnn.com/v...5.14.cnn?hpt=T2

Story said aquarium staff was trying to find out what was killing the fish ... so got video camera out to watch.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 10:55 AM

I remember hearing about this some time ago, Craig. Here's a longer version of the video that CNN obviously took highlights from:

http://video.google....09622962894202#

It posted on Google Video 4 years ago.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 11:00 AM

I was surprised to see the shark didn't try to swim away harder when it was grabbed.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:03 PM

and to thinks tooths mantis videos had to come down.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:06 PM

Many years ago I got a chance to check out the Giant Pacific Octopus behind the scenes at the National Aquarium. It likes to "shake hands" by grabbing your arm with its' sucker laden arm. Very strong and hard to pull off.

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