Nice Video of Coconut Octopus

[DWhatley]

While I was watching Tuvalu's video on YouTube, a secondary video, Octopus on the Catwalk was next in line and is also a great one to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8h7USlozM0&NR=1

 

[Animal Mother]

http://www.tonmo.com/community/index.php?threads/8105/

Yes, that is very cool.

 

[DWhatley]

Our Synchronization is lacking

 

[Animal Mother]

That is quite a smart little monkey though. Amazing.

 

[Tintenfisch]

Excellent, an octopus with packrat syndrome!

 

[mucktopus]

Back in the days of filming A. margnatus for the walking octopus paper we heard a story of one seen almost completely clammed up in two halves of a coconut shell while and sticking two arms out the bottom and running along the sand- like fred flintstone in his car. Apparently a picture was taken but neither the photographer nor the evidence could be found.

 

[DWhatley]

Mucktopus,
When I saw the video I went looking for the credits and was actually surprised you were not the photographer . From you note I guess adding three initials removed some of the diving

 

[allison finch]

I was lucky to see this first hand in Indonesia. This guy was running across the bottom with his favorite shell

 

[allison finch]

He stopped and sat in it like a bathtub.

 

[allison finch]

then he pulled it over himself upside down for cover.

Too wonderful to watch it.

 

[allison finch]

another marginatus nearby didn't like our attention.

 

[DrBatty]

wow....that last photo is very striking! Beautiful work.

 

[Animal Mother]

Gorgeous.

 

[sorseress]

What great photos, and what beautiful octopuses!

 

[DWhatley]

I am soooo envious. The closest I have knowingly come to seeing an octopus in the ocean was the one that climbed out of the dead coral we collected when I was a young teenager!