To understand the inner details of octopus lives, researchers dived for about a month at a reef off the coast of Eilat, Israel, and tracked 13 octopuses for a total of 120 hours using several cameras.

The fact is, the octopus is doing quite well in Puget Sound, thank you very much. But the state went ahead and instituted a ban on hunting of the charismatic G.P.O. in certain Puget Sound dive spots .

An octopus cyanea hunting with a blue goatfish, while a blacktip grouper lies in wait. The snout of a cornetfish is also visible on the top of the picture. Credit: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins.

When octopuses and fish hunt in groups in the Red Sea, the leadership roles are more dynamic than researchers knew — as are some ways the animals enforce cooperation.

More information: Eduardo Sampaio, Multidimensional social influence drives leadership and composition-dependent success in octopus–fish hunting groups, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI ...

The octopus’s hunting was more efficient when it was traveling with fish partners: It checked out fewer crevices, but spent more time at each one, suggesting it was finding prey to slurp up.

Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 / 150812151220.htm. University of California - Berkeley.

This story was updated Feb. 2 at 11:30 a.m. EST. A wild octopus surprised an Australian diver this week by suddenly, and quite dramatically, inflating itself with water, ballooning up like a ...

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After the recent outcry over the killing of an octopus off Alki Beach, the State Department of Fish & Wildlife is now looking into banning octopus hunting in the Puget Sound.

In its small glass aquarium, an octopus is coiled placidly in its den. Then, a crab falls into the tank. The octopus scrambles to fling itself over the crab, looking less like a finely honed ...