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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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25 Mar 2005 11:07:02 AM |
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Octopus |
Two legs are better than eight when an octopus has a cunning escape
strategy
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=623426
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
25 March 2005
They have eight legs and can move by jet propulsion but the octopus has
another trick up its many sleeves - it can walk backwards on two legs
as part of a cunning escape strategy.
Scientists have for the first time filmed bipedal walking in the
octopus, which uses this unusual form of locomotion as an elaborate
pretence at being an inanimate object.
Octopus octopuses
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=(Octopus%20OR%20octopuses)&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&
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http://www.google.com/search?q=%28Octopus+OR+octopuses%29&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
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Steve Connor
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/9067cc906dcff6c5
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