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My Octopus Teacher

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she's thought, "Okay, brittle stars are stealing my food,"

My Octopus Teacher

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and has this amazing method of just picking them up with her suckers

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and gently just throwing them out the den.

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Now she's completely the boss.

My Octopus Teacher

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She initially adopted the same method to crab hunting with lobster.

My Octopus Teacher

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You just suddenly see...

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lobsters just shooting out of the reef.

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I'm thinking now, "She's definitely gonna catch this one."

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Time and time again, they just evade her.

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And then, a couple of weeks later,

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watching her coming round the side,

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corralling me so that

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she can then get between the lobster and myself.

My Octopus Teacher

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Using me as part of her hunting strategy.

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And instead of that messy lunge...

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throwing her web over the top.

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And then there's nowhere for it to go.

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This is an animal that is strategizing

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and working out very quickly how best to hunt a very tricky prey.

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A lot of her intelligence is built