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What are differences between octopuses and dolphines?

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The difference between dolphins and octopus is that dolphins have skeletons and octopuses don't! There are many differences between a dolphin and an octopus such as an octopus has tenicles and dolphins dont. Plus they eat very different diets. Octopuses may eat plankton while the dolphin eats small fish

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