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My Octopus Teacher

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I'd had this experience with these incredible San master trackers.

My Octopus Teacher

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I just thought, "I wonder if anybody could ever track anything underwater?"

My Octopus Teacher

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This animal has spent millions of years learning to be impossible to find.

My Octopus Teacher

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And that was very frustrating at first, so difficult to discern.

My Octopus Teacher

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and heart urchin tracks

My Octopus Teacher

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and fish tracks...

My Octopus Teacher

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and worm tracks?

My Octopus Teacher

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And the predation marks.

My Octopus Teacher

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The egg casings.

My Octopus Teacher

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I needed to learn everything.

My Octopus Teacher

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And then you have to start thinking...

My Octopus Teacher

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It's like being a detective.

My Octopus Teacher

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And you just slowly get all your clues together.

My Octopus Teacher

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And then I started to...

My Octopus Teacher

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make breakthroughs.

My Octopus Teacher

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"Okay, those are the animals she's killing."

My Octopus Teacher

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So I'm looking at kills. I'm looking at little marks, diggings in the sand,

My Octopus Teacher

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little changes in the algal patterns where she's been moving.

My Octopus Teacher

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And then knowing, "Okay, this animal is very close now.

My Octopus Teacher

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It's close. It's within one or two meters."