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22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Wrong Shelter

Coconut octopus - Amphioctopus marginatus - owes it name to the well documented ability to use pieces of empty coconut to build temporary shelter where to hide on the sandy bottom. Often and often is spotted using antropogenic debrids, like this one spotted inside a piece of transparent molded plastic normally used to sell toys. the behaviour is right, the position is perfect...but the material is totally wrong and show us how much our ocean are polluted

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2023
Date Uploaded: 10.2024
Photo Location: Philippines
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Copyright: © Emilio Mancuso