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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Coconut Octopus

The coconut octopus is found on sandy bottoms in bays or lagoons. It frequently buries itself in the sand with only its eyes sticking out.

In March 2005, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley published an article in Science in which A. marginatus was reported to have a bipedal behavior.^[1] It is one of only two octopus species known to display such behavior, the other species being Abdopus aculeatus. According to the article, this behavior was discovered in an area off Sulawesi, Indonesia, where the sandy bottom was littered with coconut shells. The bipedal motion appears to mimic a floating coconut.^[2]

The Veined Octopus is observed to store and modify coconut shells, assembling them to use as shelter, making it the first invertebrate known to use tools.

(Source: Wikipedia.com)