Common Octopus walking about and trying to hide in plain sight on the top of the reef in St. Maarten, dive site title reef

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Turtle Reef is a great site to find marine life and one the reasons to encouter unique creatures is a flat area on the top of the reef and in this ocasion we found a common octopus hiding in front of us in in plain sight, Using a network of pigment cells and specialized muscles in its skin, this invertebrate can almost instantaneously match the colors, patterns, and even textures of its surroundings, When discovered, an octopus will release a cloud of black ink to obscure its attacker's view, giving it time to swim away and in this case the octopus did not use the black ink as a defence strange…

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Location: st. maarten
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