Five octopus vids
The coconut using octopus has been making the news lately, as the first evidence of tool use by these animals. A good opportunity to post some vids of these cool creatures:
UPDATE: the “first tool use” has been somewhat oversold. Thanks to Zen Faulkes for calling my attention to this.
They are resourceful:
Camouflage skills:
More camouflage skills, and dining habits:
More dining habits:
Flexible:
The “first evidence of tool use” angle has been a bit oversold:
http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/12/ive-got-lovely-bunch-of-coconuts.html
Thanks for calling my attention to your post! I fixed mine to reflect that.