Coconut Carrying Octopus

Scientists were stunned to discover tip-toeing octopuses with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside of the coconut-shell for protection or deception.

 ”We were blown away,” said biologist Mark Norman of discovering the octopus behavior off Indonesia. “It was hard not to laugh underwater and flood your [scuba] mask.”

The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.

Maybe not the cutest nor cuddliest of creatures, but certainly intresting.

Source: National Geographic