Octopus builds home in coconut shells

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 07:14 in Biology & Nature

Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter - unusually sophisticated behaviour that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.

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