Scientists capture an octopus slapping a grouper fish in the South Pacific Ocean, a practice which they believe is related to hunting.

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When scientists dropped a video camera to the seafloor off Rotuma in the South Pacific Ocean, they filmed an octopus lashing out at a grouper.