A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus), a species that gathers coconut and mollusc shells for shelter, Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia by Steve Jones
An ingenious octopus has been showing off his house-building skills, using bits of trash found on the seabed - a spoon, a flip-flop and some coconut shell.
The clip, filmed off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok, shows the crafty cephalopod dragging the items across the ocean floor and then constructing a little hut where he can hide from sharks and other predators.
The critter in question is a coconut octopus (amphioctopus marginatus), a species only discovered in 1964 and named after its habit of finding and using coconuts. This one is only about three inches long, with tentacles about six inches long, which means it can fit quit snugly into a home made of a flip-flop and a coconut shell (source).
