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Octopus builds shelter
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December 15, 2009, 11:14:45 am »
SYDNEY – Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_sc/as_australia_coconut_octopus
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Gives new meaning to Jack's saying, "three cracked [in]vertebrates" hehe!
I loved this:
"I was gobsmacked," said Finn, a research biologist at the museum
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