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By Keith Veronese at @io9



Dive into murky water, thrust your hand into a hole, and return to the surface with with an octopus. Octopus wrestling sounds like a horribly rude form of aquatic home invasion. But let’s time travel back to the Pacific Northwest circa 1960, when this was a popular spectator sport.
…Octopus wrestling isn’t so much wrestling per se– it’s more akin to sticking your hand into a dark cavern and ripping an octopus out.

This sounds pretty awesome for the humans. Not so much for the octopi.

    By Keith Veronese at @io9

    Dive into murky water, thrust your hand into a hole, and return to the surface with with an octopus. Octopus wrestling sounds like a horribly rude form of aquatic home invasion. But let’s time travel back to the Pacific Northwest circa 1960, when this was a popular spectator sport.

    …Octopus wrestling isn’t so much wrestling per se– it’s more akin to sticking your hand into a dark cavern and ripping an octopus out.

    This sounds pretty awesome for the humans. Not so much for the octopi.

     
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