These socks throw a medium, random throw.
A new article published Friday in the journal Ecology has found that octopuses catch fish, sometimes to ensure collaborative hunting, and sometimes just for the sake of it.
“POLPS. PUNCH. FISH !! ”Co-author of the study, Eduardo Sampaio, excited he tweeted of the publication of his research. “It was probably the funniest thing I wrote an article. Always!”
Octopuses and fish are known to hunt together, and each benefits from the other’s strengths, except when the ocean bushes decide to blow up their random collaborators on the stairs.
A punch seems like “a quick, explosive move with one arm aimed at a specific fish mate,” the newspaper describes, an act that costs the octopuses little of their zeal. “[Actively] hitting a fish mate carries a small energy cost for the actor (i.e. pop), ”the authors explain.
Investigators recorded eight octopus-fish fight videos between 2018 and 2019 in the Red Sea that involved a variety of victims, including squirrels, black-billed, milk-skinned, groupers, yellow saddle and goat fish.
While six of the fist outbreaks could be related to obvious reasons for octopus – including the healthy desire to “guarantee collaboration” – two appear to be acts of fish violence. Researchers don’t fully understand why pops sometimes have violent, pointless episodes, but they believe it could simply be “malicious behavior” or a form of “punishment”.
The degree of injury to fish from these explosions – physically and emotionally – is also currently beyond the knowledge of science.
“We have never seen permanent marks or anything like punches, but we cannot say for sure whether the fish are injured or not. Of course they don’t like it! ”Sampaio he tweeted.
In addition to experiencing seemingly unnecessary outbreaks of aggression, octopuses are also similar to humans in hugging, dreaming, being adversely affected by climate change, and preferring to hang heavy groups rather than cool off with a Chewbacca action figure when they are administered two molly.