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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Are You Suggesting Coconuts Migrate?

The great mystery of how coconuts could be found in Britain has perplexed us for decades now:



It isn't an issue of aerodynamics after all:

Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.

A mystery of British history is solved. Neither theory of African or European Swallows was correct.