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of sight v/ith them. 
The boys had caught ai other octopus out near Goulding a few days age, 
liothing to do but run him in as replacement. We put his house in the pen 
and brought in a new crab. The octo watched from his doonvay, appearing to 
be quite interested. After a half-hour he grabbed the crab on a near pass 
and actually came outside to eat it. But since he could not get back into 
his house and wanted a better location, he headed across the pen and ended 
by sliding into the cave usually occupied by the moray, 
Yfe assumed that when the moray arrived the octopus would come flying 
out of this haven in a hurry. The moray was ready, and came slithering in 
the moment we opened the gate. He went for his usual den — now occupied 
by the octopus — and went in* And nothing happened. I could see the 
octopus through an opening, he turned pal© snd flattened himself into a 
solid knot. The moray may have nudged him a little, but aside from that 
gave him no trouble. In a few minutes the octo was back at the business 
of eating his crab> and the moray was looking out of a hole in the rocks. 
Apparently a moray frightens an octopus at any time, but does not always 
cause it to panic. 
We put the moray back into his part of the cage, closed the door and 
went up for lunch. When I dropped back to the bottom afteiwrards both octos 
wore tramping about the coral in the pen* I opened the door for the moray. 
One octopus let out a puff of ink and hid behind the coral against a back 
glass. The other one stayed where he was up in a comer Just beneath the 
