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From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject: Re: DNA test results
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:17:58 GMT
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In article <pr4ogd$6es$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 10/28/2018 7:48 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> 
>> There was a video on the web once, unfortunately I don't have the
>> link, showing an octopus in an aquarium unscrewing a jar in order
>> to get the food inside.  With running comment by a human,
>> speaking Finnish.
>> 
>In the version I've heard the scary part is that after eating the 
>octopus puts the remains back in the jar and closes it. 

Now, that I've never seen.  Would there *be* any remains,
considering what was in the jar was a piece of fish?  But if you
can provide a link to the video showing that, I'd love to see it.
What I saw was the octopus removing the lid and dropping it.

>They apparently 
>also have a habit of escaping from their tanks and going walk about.

Oh, yes.  They're smart.

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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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