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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Would that be a European swallow octopus or an African swallow octopus?
“They could grip it by the husk.”
Isn’t calamari squid?
cause they’re aliens...
Isn’t there a thread that octopus is from outer space?
No matter, they are tasty.
And can be territorial and vicious.
5.56mm
LOL.
Not funny.
lol
5.56mm
Yup.
How do the lefties do it?
“Think of the planet!”
“It will help stop Climate Change!”
“But it’s for the sea creatures, REeeeee!”
And think of all of the bird houses we could make out of the globalists private jets!
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.
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