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Old 12-14-2009, 04:39 PM   #331
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The new goggles also do nothing.
 
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-carrying.html

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Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says.

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The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.
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