Octopus hitches a ride on bottlenose dolphin
Octopus hitches a ride on bottlenose dolph Octopus hitching a ride on a bottlenose dolphin!! Who eventually dislodged it and ate it After being targeted by the dolphin, the quick-thinking octopus tucked itself out of harm’s way to avoid being eaten, before hitching a ride above water The astonishing site was captured by scientists observing four bottlenose dolphins by the island of Kalamos, off the west coast of Greece, as part of Ionian Dolphin Project After jumping out of the water three times, in a bid to shake off the intrusive octopus, the dolphin later returned to its group without showing any obvious signs of distress I have never seen anything like this,’ biologist Joan Gonzalvo told New Scientist ‘My hypothesis is that the dolphin might have attacked – tried to prey on the octopus – and somehow to avoid it the octopus just attached to the dolphin’s belly ‘Whales have been reported on numerous occasions to breach as a strategy to remove parasites and barnacles.’...