Sunday, November 20, 2011

Octopus use coconut shells as mobile home and armor
By: Meera Dolasia 
source: web
10/28/2011

Most of the people think that octopuses are boring eight legged species, that spend its day wriggling around with its snake-like arms. However they do not know that this animal is very intelligent and is known to be able to go through mazes and try to escape from tanks. Octopuses are one of the 20 most intelligent animals with similar skills. Researchers had more than 500 dives between 1998 and 2008 in the islands of Northern Sulawesi and Bali to observe the behavior of twenty Veined Octopuses. Their discoveries where amazing! These octopuses would search for discarded coconut shells that where bigger than their 3 inch wide bodies. When they would discover one, they would use it to hide and as a lookout pint for predators or as a nice secure home. 


I think this is really cool that octopuses are so intelligent. I really think that they would be able to hide from predators and so on. They hold on to the coconut and walk around instead of leaving it behind. These creatures are very interesting and fun to watch!



1 comment:

  1. Hahahah! This reminds me of the octopus that my marine biology teacher had in her classroom in college. It was so smart that at night it would move into the tank beside it and eat all the fish and then move back to its tank. She wondered where all the fish went, so she set up a camera and found out that it was the octopus! :) They are very interesting and smart creatures indeed. I love that you put this video on here.

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