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Deebs
12-14-2009, 02:28 PM
Haz skillz. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18281-octopuses-use-coconut-shells-as-portable-shelters.html)
Disneyphile
12-14-2009, 02:35 PM
That is cute! I've always loved octopi. They're very intelligent.
BarTopDancer
12-14-2009, 02:49 PM
That's awesome!
Alex
12-14-2009, 02:49 PM
Then there are the stories (I've heard it told about so many acquariums that I just assume it is a marine biologist urban legend, but I hope not) of giant Pacific octopuses escaping their tanks, eating fish out of neighboring tanks and then returning to their tanks.

I do know that some species learn mazes better than rats.
Ghoulish Delight
12-14-2009, 02:50 PM
They can also open jars.
Alex
12-14-2009, 02:53 PM
And I once watched a documentary on Nickelodeon that showed one operating a cash register and being irritable.
Gemini Cricket
12-14-2009, 02:54 PM
Yeah, Ralphie studied these creatures. He said it all that time that they are indeed very smart. And, yes, leaving a tank to go to another one and back does indeed happen. Apparently, that happened at the Monterey Bay Aquarium long ago.
Ghoulish Delight
12-14-2009, 02:58 PM
And I once watched a documentary on Nickelodeon that showed one operating a cash register and being irritable.
Squid. (well, that is also a cephalopod also, but all the stuff I've seen always involved octopi, not squid).
Alex
12-14-2009, 03:27 PM
Shows what I know trying to reference a show I've never seen an entire episode of.
Chernabog
12-14-2009, 03:51 PM
They are also very very delicious!
Capt Jack
12-14-2009, 03:52 PM
so, come the human apocolypse, we now see who will be running things in a few million years

so, wont you join me in saying
'all hail our new cephalopod rulers!'
Deebs
12-14-2009, 03:55 PM
Welcome, new octopus overlords.
flippyshark
12-14-2009, 04:11 PM
Anyone see the "Future Is Wild" series on cable? They postulated a future species of tree-branch swinging octo-monkeys. I can't find any pictures, but it was a really cool show.
alphabassettgrrl
12-14-2009, 04:23 PM
Fascinating!
Betty
12-14-2009, 04:44 PM
I'm pretty sure they are aliens from another planet.
SzczerbiakManiac
12-14-2009, 04:55 PM
Makes me wonder if I should convert to Cthulhuism....
Disneyphile
12-14-2009, 05:10 PM
I have long accepted Cthulu as my lord and savior. :D
Prudence
12-14-2009, 07:59 PM
Cthulhu fhtagn!
3894
12-15-2009, 06:48 AM
I love that! Thanks, OP.

Bonus points to the video's narrator for use of two great words: "nifty" and "scuttle".