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Randy
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 Posted - 12/15/2009 : 11:10:42
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Now, this is way cool. Great video too. Octopus forethought uses discarded coconut shells for protection when needed...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/14/tool-using-octopus-uses-coconut-shells-as-body-armor/
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Randy
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 12/15/2009 : 12:49:39 [Permalink]
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Octopi are some of the most marvelous creatures on earth. They are right at the top of my favorites list, crowding rattlesnakes for #1 position. And they are very tasty!
Neat videos; thanks!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 12/15/2009 : 13:01:52 [Permalink]
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| Very cool!!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/15/2009 : 16:53:40 [Permalink]
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Hey, who died and made them sapient?
Consider: Each octopus that comes up with something clever like this apparently does it by individual invention. They are solitary creatures, and have no culture. If there is ever a social species of octopus, we are doomed. Doomed, I tell ya! |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 12/15/2009 : 17:22:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hey, who died and made them sapient?
Consider: Each octopus that comes up with something clever like this apparently does it by individual invention. They are solitary creatures, and have no culture. If there is ever a social species of octopus, we are doomed. Doomed, I tell ya!
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Ha! Reminds me of this Onion article on Dolphins evolving an opposable thumb. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2009 : 17:43:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hey, who died and made them sapient?
Consider: Each octopus that comes up with something clever like this apparently does it by individual invention. They are solitary creatures, and have no culture. If there is ever a social species of octopus, we are doomed. Doomed, I tell ya!
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Ha! Reminds me of this Onion article on Dolphins evolving an opposable thumb.
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That was a masterpiece, even by Onion standards:| "I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, 'Holy fuck,'" said Oceanographic Institute director Dr. James Aoki, noting that the dolphin has a cranial capacity 40 percent greater than that of humans. "That's it for us monkeys." |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Tool-using Octopus, Coconut becomes armor
