Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
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Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
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#2National Geographic video of an octopus eating a shark:
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#3Whilst this is amazing to watch, I have to admit I didn't even know that Octopuses could walk around on their tentacles like they do in the video.
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#4National Geographic video of an octopus eating a shark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8
That's got to be the most annoying voiceover I've ever heard.
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#5Whilst this is amazing to watch, I have to admit I didn't even know that Octopuses could walk around on their tentacles like they do in the video.
Like snakes, different species--or if you'd like, different cultures of octopus have different methods of locomotion.
Also, I don't know if you noticed but when it was walking with the coconut, it changed its skin color to the color of the ocean floor to mask itself, and then when it tucked into the coconut, it turned itself dark, so it was hard to tell it wasn't an empty coconut.
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#6Whilst this is amazing to watch, I have to admit I didn't even know that Octopuses could walk around on their tentacles like they do in the video.
Indonesian Mimic Octopus (mimics lion fish, sea snake, flounder)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc
Octopus as a coconut rolling on ocean floor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgla5smg64
Opening a jar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWF6d0nelY
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#7Repeat, sort of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994797
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#8Octopuses (or my preferred octopodes :) are so amazing. I never get tired of watching videos of them mimic (see prawn's comment), escape from boxes ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-azBDt0kik ), and camouflage themselves ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NQUqR_YpsA ). Can't wait until I can buy clothes with chromatophores.
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#9Ah... so that's how coconuts migrate. There is no string, or birds.
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#10What intrigues me the most is how a sea creature like the octopus can take advantage of an element that's not even from its domain.