November 06, 2006

• Of course the octopus and the goat are intelligent, but they're evil. VIVA LA GIANT SQUID!
• I've always said, if the octopus had evolved a longer life-span (currently it's usually about 3 years, or summat short like that), they would truly rule us all.
• since I can taste whoever I touch I don't like to shake hands much how sad for creatures full of bones who spend their lives as monotones
• Picture of cephalopod eggs.
• Is that a .gif of an octopus with a bong? Bongopus?
• I've heard that story about the octopus climbing out of its tank to get at the other fish, but I don't believe it. My pet 'pus Cassandra could never climb out of her tankfk ;wlgfmnmsfnfdngj, bj,j hb Muteboy is unavailable right now. But I can answer your questions. Try to keep them intelligent, puny humans mmmkay?
• Viva Me!
• Now that they have been found out, will they remain quite or will they reveal their diabolical plans from the deep?
• Perhaps they'll only remain somewhat. *squares pupils, trails tentacles nonchalantly*
• They are so high.
• Very nice 33MB video of an octopus escaping through a 1-inch hole here.
• bipedal octopus
• eating a shark
• Back in the early nineties I remember going through a laboratory practices guide that included rules of treatment for different species of animals. Cephalopods were place in the same group as vertebrates, so you had to treat them as least as well as rats and mice.
• My rule of never eating anything that can open a jar or use a tool is vindicated!
• Interesting... do you eat women? /ducks
• octoper - yon drunken octopus octopiary - octopus hiding in a formal garden octoast - this calamari is burnt
• Well, yes, but back to the original topic: I have no problems with cannibalism, either.
• octoad - an octopus that hops octorso - what an octopus ain't got octoken - a fish in a neighbouring aquarium octut - an octopus' mummy
• Octobias - a prejudiced octopus Octoboggan - an octopus on a sledge Octrich - an octopus that hides from danger by burying its head in the silt
• Octung! - German for "Hey you octopi, heads up!" Octentatious - flashy, shiny octopus coutre Octometer - gauge of octopus-per-hour ratio
• Octasional - a squid who dresses up as an octopus on the weekend. Octeration - what a squid who believes it's an octopus trapped in a squid's body gets. Octoblerone - what Swiss octopusses eat.
• Occipital - stealing your drink ever so slowly Occidental - beak care
• Octopussy - the one where noone can remember what happens. Bomb on a train?
• Octomaroon: a proud Latvian octupus.
• Octavian - a flying octopus Octagon - a well-camouflaged octopus
• Not to derail, of course... In fact the only way an octopus can experience a private thought is to release a cloud of ink into the water into which it can retreat briefly and hide its mental nakedness from its followers.
• How lovely! And we worry about blushing and showing our feelings via body language. I wonder if they can lie.
• I seem to recall some study showing a cuttlefish presenting colours on one side of its body to another cuttlefish observer, and a completely different set of colours on the other side to another observer, so I'd say, yes, it seems likely that Octopuses also can lie or deliberately present 'fake data' as it were. I would imagine this would be a useful evolutionary tactic.. I suppose this would be to Octfuscate. Or to be Octscure.
• *removes +1 from Chy's score*
• The octopi are going to use the kittenses to lull us into a squee-induced sense of security. Then they will strike.
• You mean they're going to Octack.
• and they'll enforce an octhoritarian regime.
• Octzactly.
• Octung Baby!
• *cough*
• Yeah...I didn't read the middle part of this thread.
• they won't wear octoggery but smoothly pour themelves through such they don't indulge in octittle-tattle or octorture much
• Has anyone seen my lucky green oct?
• these lone gliders have eight things in common with spiders neither one wears cleated shoes nor uses a gym locker and they don't vote for presidents nor play octosoccer o the spider eats her husbands the octopus eats fish but doesn't need a net or noose such deeds to accomplish
• In one instance, the female killed the male by pinning him down against the aquarium wall for over 10 h while cannibalizing most of his arms. This was also the male-female pair in which duration of copulation was noticeably shorter, lasting only 25 min. Moral: slow and steady wins the arms race.
• What a bitch! I totally hate it when women are like that.
• Must've been that time of the month.
• Sounds like something caused by captivity, to me. It's like the thing about black widow spiders always eating their mate: this apparently only happens in captivity.
• Cephalopod chandelier, my dear. Not strap-on, alas.
• MonkeyFilter: Not strap-on, alas.
• Deep sea cephalopods and other monstrosities. (Via the other place).
• The Dove Lays Down With The Octopus
• Octopus unearths 900-year-old hidden treasure
• Sure, and they reward the guy killing the octopus. Sickos.
• They killed it for its bukket.
• Mapping of seabed off of Sable Island reveals Dumbo Octopus and single-cell organism the size of a grapefruit.
• Heh - they've been showing a live feed of this stuff in the building here.
• Wunderpus photogenicus
• Happy Unofficial International Cephalopod Awareness Day!
• Why isn't this a federal holiday? Dammit, I demand an official National Cepholopod Awareness Day!
• Have a Gibbous Cephalodmas! stolen from the OtherFilter
• The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head
• homunculus, I saw that-- and wasn't surprised (very amused though.) Last time I was at the National Zoo in DC I watched them feeding the octopus bits of shrimp on a stick. She changed colour to a deep red, chased the bits of shrimp around the tank, grabbed the now-empty stick and wouldn't let go so that the feeder had to painstakingly uncurl her arms... that creature was having fun.
• Oceanographer David Gallo talks to the TED conference about cephalopod camouflage techniques (video). Worth watching to the end, the real jaw-dropper is at around the 4.25 mark onwards. Absolutely astounding.
• Wow.
• Octo Pussy (possibly nsfw).
• VIDEO: Octopus Sex Lives Revealed
• How Smart Is the Octopus?
• Answer: Very.
• Are squid and octopuses really intelligent or have researchers been seduced by their alien charms? Do octopuses engage in play? They do like Mr. PotatoHead Do they really have personalities? They're pretty good at cleaning:
• Unh, didn't want the Slate link--sorry Hom. This one. Keep the faith, baby.
• Octopuses have two legs and six arms
• Or two legs, six arms, and a tentacle?
• Tell me, oh, tell me, oh, tell me, I beg: Which are the armses, and which are the legs?
• One needes shaving and one just gets segs.
• Finally
• Well, Na Kika IS he octopus-god of the Gilbert Islands. His many arms shoved up the earth from the bottom of the sea to form the islands, the beaches, and the rocks. It's frightening that many religious persons use the octopus in unfortunate ways.
• Otto The Octopus Is A Bastard
• Yeah, I'd be annoyed by a light that bright, too.
• Octopuses give eight thumbs up for high-def TV
• Another bored octopussy. Maybe it wanted some watery friends. There's even a Flickr set.
• I've got a lovely bunch of octopus.
• That octopus is a genius, all right. (I saw Land of the Dead for the first time the other night, and he reminds me of Big Daddy. Soon enough he'll emerge from the depths and kill us all.)
• Smarter than your average Swallow.
• Octopus vs. Sea Lion—First Ever Video
• NOOOOOOOOS! Sombudy stoled mah bukket coconut, then teh sea lion eated ma arm.
• Octopus steals video camera and swims off with it while it's recording
• Whew! That was a tense couple moments when the octo was threatening to steal the spear gun and turn it upon the swimmer. Evil Octos!!
• Check out the guy's profile - he works for Weta digital. Soooo... nice CGI, eh.
• Scientists solve millennia-old mystery about the argonaut octopus
• Octopi - tasty and mysterious.
• Octopie?
• Hurk! Quiet day at work Ed, thanks for the strip!
• The Argonaut knows the secret to a happy life: Maintain neutral buoyancy.
• Watch a giant octopus live his slimy life in real time
• Remember: You are not a number, Deriq. You are a free cephalopod. As we all should be.
• Antarctic octopuses found with cold-resistant venom
• The octopuses would drill small holes .. through which they inject their toxic saliva. *shudders*
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader, says Paul the Octopus, the sea creature that correctly predicted the outcome of World Cup games, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world.
• New Purple Octopus?
• Mollusks evolved brains on four different occasions
• Behold the true colors of the North Pacific giant octopus
• Please don't
• Octopuses rewrite their RNA to function in frigid Antarctic waters
• Texts From Cephalopods: It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.
• You got to be squidding me.
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• Greek octopus forms coalition with dolphin's genitals
• Secrets of the half-male, half-female cuttlefish revealed at last
• Trying desperately to work in a joke about bivalves--not succeeding.
• you could do something to the tune of Rocky Horror's 'transsexual transvestite Transylvanian' with bisexual bi-polar bicycling bivalve Biden... nope, I went too far...
• ...about two slimy feet, I'd say.
• Foiled by an octopus ...
• Otto and Victoria
• Luiz Antonio: Why He Doesn't Want to Eat Octopus
• And this is how vegetarians are born...
• Happy Tourists Catch Rare Octopus, Beat it to Death, and Eat it
• The Octopus Affair
• Behold, A Baby Octopus The Size Of A Pencil Eraser
• True Facts About The Octopus
• I heart zfrank. Yes. That is how I do.
• ‘Kleptopus’, A Shy Shell Gathering Octopus Who Just Wants To Build A Safe Hiding Place