SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian scientists have discovery an octopus species that carries around coconut shells to hide in when threatened, behavior the researchers said was the first example of ...

This octopus has devised an ingenious way to create a moveable shelter by assembling two halves of a coconut shell. - [Narrator] Our understanding of octopus intelligence took another leap forward, ...

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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 ...

To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio points to a YouTube video. It shows an octopus pulling two halves of a coconut shell together to hide inside. Later the animal stacks the ...

The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet and assembling ...

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