Octopus snatches coconut and runs

[Drachir]

Originally Posted by BookStop

Don't worry, Drachir, I'm not accusing you of performing surgery w/o anesthesia on octopi or anything else, just wondering what animals the US and UK do hack up w/o it. It was a shocking statement that brought quite horrific flashes to mind. I'm also wondering what the author meant by "expiramental" int hat quote. (not that I'm expecting an answer, just wondering aloud)

Now if they are as intellegent as cats, are cats as intellegent as octopuses? My cats certainly can't build anything.

My cat can. This may help answer your question.

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[Moonbat]

I'm a little perturbed by the fact that they kept saying octopuses, and not octopi.
You would have thought that a scientific article on Octopi would at least use the correct plural.

[pyan]

They're both acceptable...

octopus - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Strictly speaking, though, it should be octopodes...

octopodes - Definition of octopodes at YourDictionary.com

[Ursa major]

If they were called octocats (sing. octocat) would they be safer from experimentation?



Perhaps not....

[Werewoman]

I have to question my own intelligence here, folks, because when I first pictured in my mind what I expected to see on the video, I thought of a giant octopus gathing up a bunch of (proportionately) tiny coconut shells and then stacking them into a shelter formation.

I am laughing my butt off here!

I especially like the part at the end where it looked like the octopus was going to make off with the camera as well.

[Rothgar]

Originally Posted by Werewoman

I especially like the part at the end where it looked like the octopus was going to make off with the camera as well.

Just image if it got ahold of a 52 piece socket wrench set.

[dreamhunter]

It's just a big squid, isn't it?

[murphy]

Originally Posted by Moonbat

I'm a little perturbed by the fact that they kept saying octopuses, and not octopi.
You would have thought that a scientific article on Octopi would at least use the correct plural.

I think it's a word derived from Greek, not Latin.

[Drachir]

Originally Posted by Rothgar

Just image if it got ahold of a 52 piece socket wrench set.

I guess it would really socket to us. Then we would really look like a bunch of suckers.

[Parson]

Parson leaves wrenching. He thinks "I've been PUNished enough."

[Werewoman]

Originally Posted by drachir

i guess it would really socket to us. Then we would really look like a bunch of suckers.

tee-hee!

[Stephen Palmer]

I sent that clip to my work colleagues last week, they loved it. It's pretty amazing - the first time invertebrates have been filmed using tools.

[StormFeather]

I remember seeing a programme, one of Billy Connelly's World Tours I think, where the presenter (Billy?) was in an aquarium, and pointed to the lock on the lid of the Octopus tank. Apparently, over the course of several weeks/months (I forget) crabs, hermit or spider(?), were going missing each night. It was only when the staff viewed the security video, that they saw that the resident octopus was climbing out of his tank, choosing a crab tank, catching himself a snack, and then getting back in his tank before the staff arrived next morning.
Clever huh?

[murphy]

Originally Posted by StormFeather

I remember seeing a programme, one of Billy Connelly's World Tours I think, where the presenter (Billy?) was in an aquarium, and pointed to the lock on the lid of the Octopus tank. Apparently, over the course of several weeks/months (I forget) crabs, hermit or spider(?), were going missing each night. It was only when the staff viewed the security video, that they saw that the resident octopus was climbing out of his tank, choosing a crab tank, catching himself a snack, and then getting back in his tank before the staff arrived next morning.
Clever huh?

I'd sure like to see that video. It would be amazing and fun. Too bad they didn't post it on YouTube.

[Rosemary]

It never ceases to amaze me at the various inventive things that certain animals can do.

There are always new examples showing up....