The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus [Amphioctopus marginatus] the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.Hmn. The ONLY spineless tool-users? They obviously didn't take Homo sapiens congressi into account.....
Richard L. Kent, Esq., One Old Silverback Who Likes Bats Much Better than Bureaucrats
'The greatest evil is not now done... even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered ... in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.’ - C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
"I'd like to beeeee.... under the seeeeea....."
A video from National Geographic reports: "Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception".
Thanks for the Beatle quote!
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