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If your hands could smell, you’d be an octopus

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Exactly how does those octopi suckers work and how useful are they? Take a look and learn more!

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As the octopus expands the water filled chamber of the sucker called the acetabulum, the pressure inside __________________, this creates ____________________ pressure outside and the sucker gets tighter.

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