Found on the sandy bottoms of the western Pacific and Indian oceans, the Coconut Octopus is the only member of the elite club of tool-using animals who doesn’t have a backbone.
In order to hide from predators, these cephalopods tiptoe around with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides before reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection.
When they aren’t hiding in a coconut, this octopus is easy to recognise from its webbed skirt that gives the cephalopod an appearance of a sentient parachute.
This breed also has an incredibly inquisitive nature and has been known to jump on to divers and feel out their equipment to check whether there is anything useful for them to steal.
