Sentences with phrase «octopuses using»

German Sumbre of the Hebrew University in Israel and his colleagues analyzed a hundred videotapes of octopuses using their flexible arms to fetch food items.

The way the octopus had the jellyfish arms freely hanging out, while keeping the bell in its mouth provides evidence for the idea that the octopus uses jellyfish as living tools, says the team.

One of the most surprising things that Scheel saw in the videos was how the octopuses used a piece of flotsam embedded in the silt at the study site, he said.

That led Binyamin Hochner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to consider whether octopuses use embodied cognition to pass a piece of food held in their arms straight to their mouths.

Visitors» spotting skills really will be put to the test as the octopuses use their master skills of disguise.

This octopus uses a coconut shell to act a bit like a hermit crab's shell, providing hiding and protection.

Scientists recently observed an octopus using a coconut shell as a mobile shelter.

These octopuses use specialized muscles to open and close little sacs of pigment in their skin called chromatophores — and this little guy was probably responding to the black tabletop beneath its tank.

Not exact matches

Ed is using the human body paradigm for the «church»... hey, let's try an octopus.

The hot type is used in winter soups, chorizo, and Galician pulpo, or octopus.

For this recipe, you can use either baby octopus or adult octopus.

Mr Wheeler said British celebrity chef Rick Stein had declared on a visit to the Margaret River region in WA in late 2015 that Fremantle Octopus was the best he'd ever tasted, while the octopus is also used by high - end restaurants such as Rockpool and Nobu in Australia.

The Plano culinary team will use the equipment for select dishes including the Ensalada de Pulpo featuring grilled octopus, roma tomatoes and cucumber.

You get to use your baked No - Fish «Tuna» Casserole to create Dory's new BFF, Hank, the grouchy, but loveable octopus.

This casserole is gluten - free, dairy - free, and vegan, if you omit the pretzels and goldfish used to make the octopus.

You can serve the casserole as is or create Dory's octopus friend, Hank, using pretzels, olives, and goldfish.

These adorablestuffed animals - think hedgehogs, koalas and octopuses - come with acode for your child to use that supports one of three charities: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, Samaritan's Purse and BestFriends Animal Society.

The object of the game is to use the tongue of the octopus to grab the goodies including apples, soccer balls, footballs, and trophies.

Use card stock and streamers to make this silly octopus.

My Thoughts: You can see in the photo above that I used the octopus to decorate the outside of the gift basket.

They designed the puzzles through sketches, made models out of clay on computer and then created the octopus enrichment tools using a 3 - D printer.

Inspired by an octopus's suckers, researchers have constructed an inchwormlike robot that uses a pair of suction cups to scoot around vertical surfaces.

Simple, rhyming text introduces eleven animals and the surprising tools they use, including an octopus that hides in a coconut, a dolphin that protects its nose with a sponge, and a deer that bedecks its antlers with heaping piles of mud and grass.

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

This makes sense, because the open ocean is rich in such creatures, so the octopus makes use of what's on the menu.

A rarely - seen deep - sea octopus eats zooplankton and a gelatinous, low - calorie food — jellyfish — and may use them as tools to catch food and feed through

OCTOPUSES have been spotted carrying coconut shells to use as shelters in what is claimed to be the first example of tool use in invertebrates.

Co-author Jessica Kurth of Pennsylvania State University, who worked with Voight at the Field, summarized their findings, explaining, «In this study, we used skin texture to differentiate deep - sea octopus species that closely resemble one another.

Now Julian Finn, at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has filmed four veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, picking up coconut shells for later use as hiding places.

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface.

Yet octopuses are clever critters, known to use tools in the wild, play in captivity and even watch what's happening outside their aquarium.

At last we know why female argonaut octopuses have a shell, and what use they put them to.

Many of the mimics on our list use just one trick to get by, but not the mimic octopus.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or «broken heart syndrome,» occurs when the bottom of the heart balloons into the shape of a pot (a tako - tsubo) used in Japan to trap octopus.

The researchers also used the genome to track down the genes involved in adaptive coloration, which allows the octopus to change its skin color and texture in order to blend into its environment and escape predation.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

It could be a bat using echolocation to expertly navigate in the dark, or an octopus quickly adapting its behavior to survive in the deep ocean.

The mimic octopus, cuttlefish, and chameleon use pigment sacs called chromatophores to rapidly change their skins according to their environment.

Now the researchers have delved deeper to uncover the mechanism responsible for the dramatic changes in color used by such creatures as squids and octopuses.

The gloomy octopuses crowded at Jervis Bay, Australia, appear to spit and throw debris such as shell at each other in what could be an intentional use of weapons

«Because octopuses were known to kill each other at times and be cannibalistic, the general sense is that they wouldn't interact a lot and wouldn't use signals,» David Scheel, the study's first author, told Live Science.

The researchers think the octopus might even be using the jellyfish tentacles to ensnare more prey.

The blue - ringed octopus's brawny approach is unique — all other cephalopods use sacs of pigment, called chromatophores, to change their colors.

The open ocean is teeming with such creatures, so the octopuses make use of what's available.

Now veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, have been filmed picking up coconut halves from the seabed to use as hiding places when they feel threatened.

It is also a costly behaviour, both in terms of energy use and in potentially making the octopuses more vulnerable to attack.

Not exactly a squid and not exactly an octopus, this enigmatic entity has eight arms plus two wispy filaments like the ones squid use for hunting.

We used an extensive dataset of 35 different species (52 % squid, 31 % octopus and 17 % cuttlefish) from all major oceanic regions.

«The finding is remarkable, particularly as the octopus transports the tool for future use,» says Christopher Bird of Imperial College London, who studies tool use in rooks.

The researchers, led by James Pikul of the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Shepherd of Cornell University, took inspiration from the 3D bumps, or papillae, that octopus and cuttlefish can inflate using muscle units in one - fifth of a second for camouflaging.