article_snippet.sent: Now scientists have unraveled how octopuses manage to keep track of all of scientists flailing limbs as scientists crawl over objects.
article_snippet.sent: The video above, recorded by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, shows how that despite the Hebrew University of Jerusalem body orientation (green arrow) the octopus can crawl in any direction (blue arrow) thanks to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem flexible arms .
article_snippet.sent: Using high speed videos of octopuses as high speed videos of octopuses negotiated obstacles, biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied the cephlopods movement.
article_snippet.sent: Male octopuses have a long, detachable penis in order to mate with females that are five times bigger than itself.
article_snippet.sent: This combined with they symmetrical arrangement of the arms around the body helps to give the marine creatures their extraordinary maneuverability.
article_snippet.sent: It is the first time scientists have been able to fully understand how octopuses are able to control scientists movements without a rigid skeleton.
article_snippet.sent: The findings may help scientists develop new ways for soft robots to move around and can also shed some light on how octopuses evolved in the first place.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Binyamin Hochner, who led the research, said: 'Octopuses use unique locomotion strategies that are different from those found in other animals. '
article_snippet.sent: This is most likely due to Professor Binyamin Hochner, who led the research soft molluscan body that led to the evolution of 'strange' morphology, enabling efficient locomotion control without a rigid skeleton.'
article_snippet.sent: Octopuses are thought to have evolved from clam-like creatures in the mollusc family.
article_snippet.sent: But as Octopuses lost Octopuses hard protective shell, Octopuses seem to have evolved to move far faster than other members of the mollusc family like slugs or snails.
article_snippet.sent: The octopus was found to move by pushing with its legs rather than pulling while its could move in any direction regardless of the position of its body - something that humans find extremely difficult to do without falling over .
article_snippet.sent: Dr Guy Levy, a neurobiologist who also took part in the research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said: 'During evolution, octopuses lost their heavy protective shells and became more maneuverable on the one hand, but also more vulnerable on the other hand. '
article_snippet.sent: their locomotory abilities evolved to be much faster than those of typical molluscs, probably to compensate for the lack of shell.'
article_snippet.sent: The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Current Biology, found that despite The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Current Biology large number of arms, octopuses do not move The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Current Biology in any rhythmical pattern like insects and millipedes do, for example.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jerusalem in Israel used high speed videos of octopuses crawling over objects to study how the animals move .
  