Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

The Guardian ^ | Linda Geddes

[BenLurkin]

Creepy creatures.

[PeterPrinciple]

So man is not a scourge on wildlife.....................

[BitWielder1]

Life adapts.
Soon enough certain garbage will be deemed necessary for wildlife.

[ConservativeMind]

Like with creating artificial reefs to help ocean habitats from deep-sixing old ships, our litter becomes another helpful thing to some creatures.

I can’t imaging carrying a bottle around as my portable home.

[HighSierra5]

What would they do with a gun?

[BenLurkin]

Take it apart, lickety-split.

Maybe even re-assemble it.

Octopuses are distrubingly clever.

[PIF]

Been around for something like 325,000,000 years, so they may have learned a thing or two.

[BradyLS]

Perfectly salvageable hulks are sent to the Briny Deep to be barrier reefs, fish habitats, and diving parks.

[ryderann]

Calamari...yum yum.

[jimfree]

Landfill is often used for new development.

[TalBlack]

“Octopuses are distrubingly clever.“

Yep! Operating a light switch as described puts them well into that category…

[FreedomPoster]

That’s squid. Octopus is tako.

[antidemoncrat]

Most of the plastic ocean pollution stems from Asia and Africa. I suppose now the UN will decree it is up to the USA to clean it up.

[FreedomPoster]

So much so I almost feel bad about eating them. Almost.

[\/\/ayne]

Octopus carries a coconut shell.

[anonsquared]

Imagine the great digs all the sea creatures would have if we sank all the billionaires’ mega yachts.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Nature is resourceful.

These tyrannical jackasses who worship the Earth while thinking it’s terribly fragile are just idiots.

But mostly, it’s all about being a Watermelon. “Green” religion on the outside, red on the in.

Look at how all these decades we can’t disturb shipwrecks - indeed, must sink ships in the deep - because it’s become an ecosystem that the critters and plants like.

That alone tells me lots about the nonsense about how terrible it is to “pollute”.

[Louis Foxwell]

Not only octopi, but all small creatures make their homes in human refuse. Watch any video of the Lembeh straits. This richest environment in the world is dependent upon such trash for its very existence.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I am not at all surprised. After all, goats eat tin cans, don’t they? LOL

[Fester Chugabrew]

I always wondered what kind of “garden” Ringo was singing about.