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In the Australian city of Port Macquarie to local photographer Jody Lowe managed to capture a rare moment in three pictures – on the back The bottlenose dolphin jumping out of the water was an octopus in the back of a dolphin.
Lowe took these amazing photos while on board the floating Hastings River Boats. “I had an amazing meeting with a dolphin saddled by an octopus, “the woman writes. with the help of users of the World Wide Web why cephalopods behaved in such an unusual way.
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Jody found out that the “stowaway” who wished ride on a bottlenose dolphin’s back, did it most likely far from purpose of fun, but for the sake of saving his own life. Octopuses like known to be a real delicacy for dolphins. Photo Lowe demonstrate that bottlenose dolphin beats against the water surface with force, wanting to throw off a mollusk, in order to immediately feast on it. However the octopus, apparently, very strongly dug into the body of a cetacean and not going to give up without a fight.
The further fate of this couple is unknown even to the author. submitted pictures. However, it is likely that escape from the predator the octopus nevertheless succeeded. After all, there is an opinion that these mollusks are very smart, besides they have great intuition and many virtues, among which, as it turned out, and amazing the courage that Jody Low captured.
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“I’m very lucky to get such rare shots,” says photographer. “You don’t see this every day.”
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