The footage, captured by a diver based on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, showed the two octopi entangled in each other’s tentacles, before the female scurries away.
Victoria has recorded five new local cases of Covid, taking the latest outbreak to 40 infections.
Victoria will enter a seven-day lockdown from midnight on Thursday in a bid to contain the outbreak which includes 79 exposure sites.
Victoria will enter seven-day lockdown at 11.59PM, with residents only allowed to leave the house for five reason.
Furious Victorians and politicians have slammed Scott Morrison over the slow vaccine rollout and the ailing hotel quarantine system as the state is plunged into another lockdown.
Health officials and senior government ministers held crisis meetings overnight to finalise the details of the lockdown.
After another four additional people tested positive to the virus, states were quick to impose various restrictions and rules to those returning to their state from Victoria.
Cooper Onyett died at Belfast Aquatics in Port Fairy, south-west Victoria, at about 11am on Friday during his first overnight excursion with Merrivale Primary School.
Heidi Withers was evicted three weeks ago, and rather than seek housing assistance, she has transported a stranger’s nearby front lawn into a campsite in Melbourne’s west.
The former Manchester United and England legend entered the latter half of his forties on May 2nd as the family enjoy an extended stay in Florida.