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Dec 09The octopus’s garden.
So they found an undersea mobile home:
Octopuses have been observed carrying coconut shells in what researchers claim is the first recorded example of tool use in invertebrates. … Veined octopuses… have been filmed picking up coconut halves from the seabed to use as hiding places when they feel threatened.
Given what we know about them, I don’t think this is all that shocking–personally, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that an army of octopi dragged the killer iceberg into the side of the Titanic or formed like Voltron and shot JFK from the grassy knoll.