We all know cephalopods are interesting and amazing. They’re also brilliant and absurd. See this out outfoxing its predators by hiding in a coconut that it carries around with it for just such a purpose.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE I AM A COCONUT PLEASE CONTINUE ON YOUR WAY
Most absurd is the tiptoeing gait.
But most fascinating is the fact that they seem to have learned how to do it.
(I can’t seem to log V out!)
I do think that’s an abalone shell, not a coconut. And holy cow, it carries it’s armor along with it?!?!
~Meg
One of them looks like an ablone shell, but the others are definitely coconuts.
I forgot to link to the full article in the post.
Awesome. Cephalopods don’t have giant brains for nothin’!
They have them for everything!
They only live a year. The experience of an octopus must be wonderfully alien.