. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. OCTOri'S HORRIDl-S. my left hand. And uow the fight commenced ; the more I struck him, the tighter he squeezed, until my arm got quite benumbed, but after a while I found the grip began to relax a little, but he held on until I had almost cut him to pieces, and then he relaxed his hold from the rock, and I pulled him uj). I can assure you I was completely exhausted, having been in that position for over twenty minutes. I brought the animal up, or rather a part of it. We laid him out, and he measured over eight feet across, and I feel perfe
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. OCTOri'S HORRIDl-S. my left hand. And uow the fight commenced ; the more I struck him, the tighter he squeezed, until my arm got quite benumbed, but after a while I found the grip began to relax a little, but he held on until I had almost cut him to pieces, and then he relaxed his hold from the rock, and I pulled him uj). I can assure you I was completely exhausted, having been in that position for over twenty minutes. I brought the animal up, or rather a part of it. We laid him out, and he measured over eight feet across, and I feel perfectly convinced that this fellow could have held down five or six ^ )0^F'''^^^S9^^ ^5^"*^ men. It is only when a person gets a gi-ip from these brutes ^^ ^^^gW^^^^hrtrfJ^?J>, £ t'l'^t one realises their strength, and it was lucky for me that I was not an amateur, foiv I can assure you that I had tiie greatest struggle to get clear of it that I have ever had witli any animal under ;* "The Octopus, like many other predaceous animals who seek their prey by night, habitually returns to skulk in the same retreat in the daytime. This practice enabled the resident Octopus of the Brighton Aquaa'ium to enjoy, for many weeks, the run of all the neighbouring tanks by night undetected, for, like the celebrated robber Peace, he was always to be found at home in the morning. But the rate at which he thmned the young Lump-fishes iji an adjoining tank led to gi-ave suspicion, and after too hearty a meal one evening he imprudently stayed out all night, and was ' caught red-handed, gorged to distention, next morning, in the Lump-fishes' abode. " On another occasion two Octopuses, kept in the same tank, also took to nocturnal roaming. Leaving their own residence after dark, one went east and the other went west, and, as if by preconcerted plan, neither was content merely to cross the frontier and visit his nearest neighbours, but both passed through, or over, one inte
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