Octopus turns body part into a GUN and shoots fish with stones in remarkable ‘first’ ever footage from new Netflix doc

AN OCTOPUS has been caught engaging successful eight-tentacled warfare, turning a assemblage portion into a "gun".

In groundbreaking caller footage, a coconut octopus is shown pelting encircling food with stones, portion it hides wrong a clamshell.

Octopi person been known to fell successful shells, and adjacent usage them arsenic armour.

Coconut octopi adjacent get their sanction from their wont of lodging themselves wrong bare coconut husks.

But, utilizing its syphon - a conduit usually utilized for swimming - to motorboat projectiles, has ne'er been documented.

The footage was captured arsenic portion of a Netflix documentary connected the impacts of integrative contamination connected marine beingness successful southeast Asia.

The never-before-seen behaviour was lone discovered aft the squad reviewed the footage.

“We couldn’t judge it,” said Netflix series shaper Katy Moorhead, the Greek Reporter wrote.

“She was shooting fish, with stones, done her syphon! We were truthful surprised.

"Nobody had ever recorded veined octopuses utilizing their syphons arsenic weapons before.”

To beryllium definite it wasn't a one-time event, the squad returned to observe the octopus for different 3 weeks.

Cinematographer Roger Munns spent 110 hours filming the creature, watching it cautiously load sandy debris into its syphon to occurrence astatine food that swam excessively close.

The projectiles moved truthful rapidly the filmmakers were hardly capable to drawback it unless the footage was played successful slow-motion.

“She turns her syphon into a gun,” said erstwhile President Barack Obama, the series’ narrator.

“Until now, we didn’t cognize an octopus could limb itself similar this. Genius”.

Coconut octopi, besides known arsenic Amphioctopus marginatus, are typically recovered successful tropical waters of the occidental Pacific Ocean.