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Ali
12-17-2009, 07:37 AM
if only I could live in a coconut too....much less work than building a house :? :lol:

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amzz
12-17-2009, 08:05 AM
ent Ali! lol
I think this was reported as the first recorded evidence of the octopus using a 'tool'.
vaio
12-17-2009, 08:08 AM
ali, nobody stopping you from living in a coconut....yuh small enough :mrgreen:
Ali
12-17-2009, 08:14 AM
yeah amzz it was

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8408233.stm

vaio meh head alone might fit
Falcon
12-17-2009, 12:38 PM
this should put that supremacist attitude which was dogma into its true perspective. They said animals dont use tools- then chimps, then baboons, then capuchins, then corvids, then bateleurs, now an invertebrate.

It's not evolution either- it's just only now being observed.
Ali
12-17-2009, 12:42 PM
It's not evolution either- it's just only now being observed.

indeed
trini123
12-18-2009, 08:42 PM
That is incredible. The octopus carries its "home". It have a mobile home.
Sirius
12-18-2009, 09:17 PM
Amazing.

The octopus is one of the most intelligent and creative species on the planet. Know why they don't have a civilization as we do? They lack the ability to pass knowledge from one generation to the other, and being water dwellers they can't learn to manipulate fire.

Some food for thought there. Had they been land dwellers and slightly more social they may have become the dominant species of the planet.

Probably one of the reasons Arthur C. Clarke based his intelligent Octospider species of the Rama books on the octopus.