Official "Interesting Animal Behavior" thread
 

This is a recurring popular subcategory in various nearby threads, time for a thread all its own, for the purposes of which we specifically mean nonhuman animals. (Human animals doing interesting things - no lack of thread coveage of that.)

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biuoagnGCFQ]The Crafty Coconut Octopus[/url] - YouTube

[Insert suitable Monty Python joke here, e.g. "you're not really tentacle-locomoting, you're bangin' two coconuts together!"]

Speaking of smart cephalopods...
We can't use jars to keep things safe:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWF6d0nelY[/url]

or to keep them locked up:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvvjcQIJnLg[/url]

Every time I read about smart corvids I think about how we blew up all the rookeries in the 1930's.
[url]http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771451,00.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Miscellany: War
Monday, Feb. 06, 1939

Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season. In a crow rookery a quarter-mile long, 180 specially designed dynamite bombs were exploded, killing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 crows. Approximate number of crows killed this winter in Illinois' crow war: 150,500.[/QUOTE]

[url]https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/[/url]