Incredible Octopus Behavior Nearly Caused Scientist To Drown From Laughing
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It doesn't take a backbone to be a genius — or a master of the comedic arts, apparently.
An octopus has been captured on film exhibiting one of the most remarkable (and amusing) examples of tool usage in the animal kingdom. Footage shows the eight-limbed animal literally walking along the ocean floor carrying two halves of a broken coconut shell beneath his arms, seemingly without rhyme or reason.
But this tentacled one knows exactly what he's doing.
As it turns out, some octopuses, like this one, possess the foresight to actually pack along coconut shells to use as protective shelters when exploring areas without adequate places to hide.
Scientists say this behavior is the first evidence of tool use by an octopus, putting the aquatic animals in a league with a small number of other animals known to do the same.
"I almost drowned laughing when I saw this the first time," Finn told the BBC. "I could tell it was going to do something, but I didn't expect this — I didn't expect it would pick up the shell and run away with it."
https://www.thedodo.com/octopus-carries-coconut-1178413280.html
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Many RW Cons wouldn't have this much intelligence or foresight...
But, then again, they don't have 8 arms.
Now we know what nature intended in giving these molluscs 8 appendages!
All the better to tend their gardens:
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The more I see of this highly intelligent guy, the more I'm convinced they shouldn't be eaten!
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Assume the position...
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I've never seen.
until this shows up
Ya'all eat these fellers in Jamaica, no?
That was awesome! 
How clever octopuses are! 
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of you to establish 'intelligence' as the criterion for not eating something.
may i therefore recommend you read michael pollen's 12/23/14 article on plant intelligence.
i'm not being cheeky; it's not that a creature might have intelligence that should give us pause, and at least arouse awe and inspiration and humility. it's simply that it is alive.
because, after all, if something survives, there is some kind of intelligence that sustains it. it must learn and remember what is learned.
not a complex notion at all.
and there have been reports of saints the world over who lived without food for many many years.
air and water.
could we love the planet so much that we make such a sacrifice that would mean infinite gentleness for her?
I wonder what sort of beings were laughing at us when we humans landed on the moon...
