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Watch an octopus punch noncompliant fishes

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Sep 24, 2024
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Photo: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins
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Octopuses force fish to help them hunt and punch those that do not comply. A new study reveales what NBC News benignly characterizes as "surprisingly rich social lives."

The research, published in the journal Nature on Monday, even suggests that the famously intelligent animals organized the hunting groups' decisio…

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