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Mimic Octopus

Here, our mimic goes into one of its most common poses, that of a flounder. In this picture it looks pretty distinctive but for us watching it underwater, it really did look just like a flounder with its body flattened down and its eyes sticking up, and it even swam like a flounder would. At another point, it made its body into a long, narrow cylinder and looked just like an eel out hunting, although we didn't get a picture of that pose.

6/23/05 12:06:02 PM
Country: Indonesia
Area/City: Lembeh

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© 2005 Dan Meriwether
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