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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “cephalopod”

• Upclose and intricate on Hantu’s reef

  
  Pulau Hantu — Authority: 408
  Once again, Blog volunteer Jimmy Goh returns from a trip at Hantu Island with some fascinating macro insights into local seas. What a lovely perspective of these usually skittish animals! (Above: Ornate goby) Though slugs are easier to photograph because they are slower than gobies, you rarely get to see them doing ...
  5 days ago

• Octopus goes “Gilligan’s Island” making a home out of coconut shells

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 141
  In a scene more reminiscent of a Gilligan’s Island, octopuses are caught on film digging up discarded coconut shells from the ocean floor and scampering away with their booty to build shelters that would have made “The Professor” proud. The veined octopuses ( Amphioctopus marginatus ) were being studied off the ...
  1 week ago

• ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: Octopuses in Indonesia use villager’s discarded coconuts as shelter

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 459
  Cephalopod intelligence is well documented, but in Indonesia, a species of octopus—the veined octopuses ( Amphioctopus marginatus )—has discovered the utility of discarded coconut shells. This species of octopus uses these discarded coconut shells as shelters. Apparently, this is the first documented case of ...
  1 week ago

• The octopus cometh... yet again

  
  The Squid Zone — Authority: 118
  Definitely go see the original post...The researchers noticed that the animals were frequently using their approximately 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) tentacles to carry coconut shells bigger than their roughly 3-inch-wide (8-centimeter-wide) bodies.An octopus would dig up the two halves of a coconut shell, then ...
  1 week ago

• Science Cookies

  
  Zero Gravity — Authority: 99
  Awesome science cookies in a series of posts to a food blog by a biological anthropologist. Aren’t all anthropologists biological?  I’m a biological comedian. Ooh, she also has Space Invaders !
  1 week ago

• Master of Camouflage

  
  Are We A Blog? — Authority: 406
  This weeks show about the evolution of intelligence features a segment on the ability of cuttlefish to change the colors and patterns of their skin to match their surroundings. As Roger Hanlon, senior scientist at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, describes in "Feather Knows Best", this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Have You Scrubbed Your Cephalopod This Morning?

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 419
  Squidy by ~ced66 on deviantARTHat tip to @sevenbullsboy on Twitter.
  4 weeks ago

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