Mobile homes, under the sea

by Jackson

Here’s a fan­tas­tic lit­tle video via my friend Hel­loHel­laStella about octu­puses that use coconut shells as portable housing:

“We were blown away,” said biol­o­gist Mark Nor­man of dis­cov­er­ing the octo­pus behav­ior off Indone­sia. “It was hard not to laugh under­wa­ter and flood your [scuba] mask.”

orig­i­nal arti­cle from National Geo­graphic

The high­light, for me, comes half way through when the lit­tle guy tucks him­self inside two shells. When another scoots her way across the ocean floor is pretty cool too! This video does not con­tain sound.

Who said we coudn’t have a lit­tle fun around here, eh?