[News] Coconut-Carrying Octopus: Tool Use in an Invertebrate

[Moontanman]

Coconut-Carrying Octopus: Tool Use in an Invertebrate

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2009) — Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, adds an octopus to the growing list of tool users.

 

Coconut-carrying octopus: Tool use in an invertebrate

[Donk]

Better video and jokier story Here - BBC Science.

 

My Lady said "ah - they must be males."

 

When I asked why, she said "every woman knows that males keep their brains in their tentacles!" :)