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Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed
The Guardian ^ | Linda Geddes

Posted on 03/13/2022 10:25:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful. Now, an analysis of underwater images suggests octopuses are increasingly using discarded bottles, cans, and other human rubbish as shelter or as a sanctuary for their eggs.

The study – the first to systematically evaluate and characterise litter use by octopuses using crowdsourced images – analysed hundreds of underwater photos posted on social media platforms and image databases, or collected by marine biologists and diving interest groups.

The research, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, documented 24 species of octopus sheltering inside glass bottles, cans, and even an old battery; burying themselves under a mixture of bottle tops and seashells; even carrying plastic items around while “stilt-walking” on two tentacles, to conceal themselves from predators.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: octopuses
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To: \/\/ayne
> Octopus carries a coconut shell.

Would that be a European swallow octopus or an African swallow octopus?

21 posted on 03/13/2022 12:15:43 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

“They could grip it by the husk.”


22 posted on 03/13/2022 12:30:45 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: ryderann

Isn’t calamari squid?


23 posted on 03/13/2022 12:40:16 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: BenLurkin

cause they’re aliens...


24 posted on 03/13/2022 12:41:52 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t there a thread that octopus is from outer space?

No matter, they are tasty.

And can be territorial and vicious.

5.56mm


25 posted on 03/13/2022 1:00:05 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: anonsquared

LOL.

Not funny.
lol

5.56mm


26 posted on 03/13/2022 1:05:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: momtothree

Yup.


27 posted on 03/13/2022 1:09:48 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: M Kehoe

How do the lefties do it?
“Think of the planet!”
“It will help stop Climate Change!”
“But it’s for the sea creatures, REeeeee!”


28 posted on 03/13/2022 1:16:38 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: M Kehoe

And think of all of the bird houses we could make out of the globalists private jets!


29 posted on 03/13/2022 1:18:22 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: BenLurkin

In the 70s, I was fishing off the Huntington Beach pier, and ‘hung up’ on the bottom. I finally managed to work free, but still had something heavy on my line.

When I finally got it to the surface, it was a gallon mayonnaise full of mud.

When I got up onto the pier, the ‘mud’ turned out to be an octopus, about 3’ across.

An Oriental fisherman traded me his entire gunnysack of perch for it. We both got a good deal.


30 posted on 03/13/2022 1:34:37 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Hey, hey, ho, ho Fidel Trudeau Has got to go!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

This is called recycling!! : )

George Carlin on The Environment
https://youtu.be/EjmtSkl53h4?t=300


31 posted on 03/13/2022 2:21:07 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more hash brown patties! )
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