In 2023, researchers in New Zealand caught the rare sight of a Maori octopus hitching a ride on top of a mako shark’s head. “It makes no sense that these two animals should be at the same place and time to encounter each other,” a marine ecologist said. “We have no idea how they found each other.”
Video by Esther Stuck And Wednesday Davis, University Of Auckland
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