Coconut-carrying octopus
by John Volks
Filed under Stress Management Videos
Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behaviour. Footage shot by Dr Julian Finn of Museum Victoria. Finn, JK, T. Tregenza and MD Norman. (2009) Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus, Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 23, R1069-R1070, 15 December 2009
0:52 jetzt gehts los im Kokosnuss-Express!!!
maybe he want to be a crab or something :]
They are so smart!
just amazing
they are such a clever critter
XD This is the real life version of squidward! It doesn’t live in a house with a face, but a coconut!
Hah this is adorable.
hey look im a hermit crab now!
it’s not really tool use, it’s imitating a hermit crab
It’s like “I haz coconut an iz not afraidz too uze it!!”
Octopus: get the hell out am trying to get some sleep here!!
The octopus looks like a hermit crab at 1:58.
octopus will soon take over the world
Paul?
“Feets don’t fail me now!”
…….you will be my boyfriend ^_^
it tries to use the camera at the end too, what a jerk. you think you’re better than me octopus? get out of my coconut that’s not for you.
Nigga sole my coconut!
it’s even better when you play the Beatles ‘Octopus’s Garden’ while you watch it.
…hey thats fantastic footage….. I love octopus….in garlic…!..
haha he loves that coconut. Every other shot he’s doing something new with it lol.
That’s so cool! It looks interesting when it sits on top of the coconut though. o_o
@iamthefroman yeah! or at least installed a flat screen tv in that bad boy.
es calamardo el de bob esponja lo reconosi por la nariz
Misleading video title, that coconut was definitely NOT carrying the octopus. In serious though, I wonder why he was doing this. Making himself a house probably, he must have caught an episode of sponge bob.
raar! stay off my coconut!
hehe this put a smile on my face