Thursday, January 21, 2010

The armoured octopus.


Consider this post the third part of a trilogy video about the incredible skills of the octopuses after the previous posts:

Octopus, master of disguise
Octopus, the master contortionist

That Octopus is the most inteligent of the invertebrates is a well known fact but this footage provided by Dr Julian Finn of Museum Victoria takes it to a new level. In the video you can see a Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behaviour, a coconut that he seems to use as a portable armour/hiding place and, using both halves, as a den



4 comments:

  1. soooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool

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  2. Troppo fico!!! Graaaande polipo! E' piĆ¹ intelligente di molti esseri umani.....

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  3. God love the Sea creatures! That was touching. Your Blog is truly spectacular!

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  4. ok as soon as the octopus starting coming at the cam i woulda pooped

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