8-legged Geniuses

My cousin Rob, who is 3 years my senior and currently works at super cool design firm Ammunition Group, once told me on a family vacation to the Virgin Islands that octopi were the single most frightening sea creatures.  I’d heard stories about devious octopi in aquariums sneaking in and out of cages, but their trickery was merely amusing; nothing to be afraid of, right?  Well, now even the scientists are baffled — nay, “gobsmacked” — by these wily cephalopods. The AP (RT-ed by HuffPo and others) reports that an octopus in the waters near Indonesia has been observed cleaning out, carrying around, and nestling in coconut shells that it found at the bottom of the ocean. Time will only tell what they’ll do next. Touché, cousin Rob. I’m scared.