Sharing food. Simple as that. Social marine mammals do that. Some dogs do it. The kayaker was supposed to take a bite from the octopus, and insulted his host by not doing so.
I am not kidding.
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Seems like it could be a useful standard hunting technique to throw non-air-breathing, non-land-mobile prey onto whatever dry land or large floaty thing happens to be handy, and then go back for it once it dies. Just misapplied in the case of the kayak.
Go Rhodesia!! That's a few years old...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d14ecbfa6c.jpg
Octopi having such a reputation as escape artists may mean not breathing air or being especially land mobile may not be much of a hinderance in the short term. I saw Saving Dori....Of course, over a large enough timeline any interaction can be fatal. My first thought was also food sharing, but I had been up for 26 hours when I saw it...and had just had a double bourbon and gone to bed....
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I love Octopus, raw and grilled. Shame they are so smart.
I also suspect that if you took a bite you'd have a face full of sucker marks to explain.
Now, if you like your octopus fresh and a little less resistant to your attentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqoeboCppk