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While browsing through the news of Gore putting his foot in his mouth, and all the damn news about the Google Phone ... I decided to report on something lighter and less noticed. This article comes to us from the Associated Press, and it's about an Octopus. What's so special about this Octopus, you ask? Apparently it can carry coconuts to use as shelter. To paraphrase the article:

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.

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 (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot.

Here's the video that they reference:





Let's give them a set of real tools like a Hammer, Screwdriver, etc and see what they can do with all those arms! Better not, someone will see them as cheap labor.