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by steven2012 2757 days ago
How does an octopus know how to match its body with its background? All video I've seen have been with the octopus eyes up, it's not even looking at the background, so how does it know a) what the background color is, and 2) that its body is matching the background, since it's not looking at itself either.
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They have photoreceptors on their skin too.
As if they don't have enough super powers already.