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Octopuses Carry Coconuts
Topic Started: Dec 21 2009, 01:20 PM (77 Views)
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Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says.



"We were blown away," said biologist Mark Norman of discovering the octopus behavior off Indonesia. "It was hard not to laugh underwater and flood your [scuba] mask."

The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.

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Haha that video made me giggle :P That's really cool though, who would have thought.

Nice find Codes Rock - thank you for sharing!
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That is amazing. Invertebrates with tools. I wonder if the octopus can sing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts..." ?
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