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Wait, are octopuses building cities now?
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- Scientists found something underwater near Australia
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that shouldn't exist.
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Some people are calling them underwater cities,
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but that's not exactly right.
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They're even cooler.
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These are secret communes built by octopuses.
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And hopefully by now,
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you know that octopuses is the right plural of octopus.
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Fight in the comments.
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Like James Dean and Dr. Robby,
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octopuses are famous for being loners.
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And if two octopuses happen to run into each other,
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there's a good chance they'll either fight
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or one's going to eat the other one.
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You never wanna fight an octopus. They're well armed.
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But scientists recently found these weird sites
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where up to 15 octopuses hang out
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within a tentacle's reach of each other.
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Each of these octopus communes
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is basically just a bed of shells
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surrounding something sticking out of the sand,
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like a random manmade object,
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a few patches of rocks, kinda like cephalopod hedge.
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So it seems like a few of them made dens
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around whatever they could find sticking out of the sand,
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even if that meant being neighbors with someone
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that you'd rather have a tentaconflict with.
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Now, over time, the octopus has brought scallops
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and other prey back to their dens,
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tossed out the empty shells.
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This bed of shells created hideouts for even more octopuses
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who came and made new dens and added more shells
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until they had this whole little hangout.
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It's not exactly a utopia.
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The octopuses are often slinging mud
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and smacking each other with their tentacles.
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Sometimes they kick their enemies out altogether.
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It's basically an HOA, a home octopus association,
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but they also flirt and mate,
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so there's some spring break Airbnb vibes going on too.
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Anyway, turns out that some of the ocean's biggest loners
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have these whole hidden social lives on the sea floor.
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But hey, at least it proves they're not shellfish.
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