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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2018 - 06:18pm PT
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A veritable plethora of Octo_Facts
Who woulda known?
I'd say more but I'm under a pretty brutal nonDA with The OctoPussyGalore org.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 18, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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hey there, say, zBrown, and all... very interesting stuff...
i always loved watching stuff on these critters, since i was a kid...
i like that one octopus that pretends to be fish...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 18, 2018 - 11:42pm PT
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hey there say, excon... that was a neat video, thank you... i knew only a bit about them...
thanks, so much... did not know about their neat tricks, :O :)
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 19, 2018 - 06:57am PT
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Cephalopods are really the coolest creatures on the planet . It's amazing how smart they are for such a short lived creature.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 19, 2018 - 09:07am PT
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i'm now a fan! and i'm a boy
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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There’s a vid floating around (sorry) on Facebook, or so I’m told, about a family that rescues a
stranded octopus. The next day they returned to the spot they put the little guy/gal back. As
soon as they arrived it came up to the water’s edge and hung out with them for like an hour!
I might have to stop eating pulpo, and calamari if I’m gonna be consistent.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 19, 2018 - 11:26am PT
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They are far too intelligent to eat and definitely can have personalities IMO.
I started as a marine biologist in college. A class mascot octopus we had "Squiggy" definitely recognized individuals and was a master escape artist in terms of trying to keep him in his tank. Even duct-taping the lid down didn't stop him. He would dismantle the pump system, crawl up through the tube and be sitting on top of the tank with his "chin" on a tentacle - for all intensive purposes he appeared to be impatiently waiting for his morning meal. It was, unfortunately, his undoing when he pulled that stunt on a weekend when no one came around to put him back in the tank.
Edit to add: Squid aren't exactly joining the octopus at Harvard- so you can keep eating calamari.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Apr 19, 2018 - 12:39pm PT
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We followed one of those mimics ^^^ for around 20 minutes last August in Indonesia. Even better, it was against sand so we could watch it pretending to be a skate or a ray. Usually when you follow an octo, they duck into something and are gone. But in the Lembeh Strait, there is no where to hide.
We also saw some Blue Ring octos which I found later, are fatal. Really small critters, I got close to see. oops.
The Blue-ringed octopus is only the size of a golf ball, but still carries enough poison to kill 26 humans in minutes. uwlax.edu
Squid are cool, I like the way the orient their direction and change colours together as a school.
here's a couple, facing the same direction and same colour, but I have seen dozens do this.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 19, 2018 - 04:28pm PT
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hey there, say...
yes, i love it! more good stuff and links, here now, to...
also:
as to this quote from justthemaid:
Apr 19, 2018 - 11:26am PT
They are far too intelligent to eat and definitely can have personalities IMO.
I started as a marine biologist in college. A class mascot octopus we had "Squiggy" definitely recognized individuals and was a master escape artist in terms of trying to keep him in his tank. Even duct-taping the lid down didn't stop him. He would dismantle the pump system, crawl up through the tube and be sitting on top of the tank with his "chin" on a tentacle - for all intensive purposes he appeared to be impatiently waiting for his morning meal. It was, unfortunately, his undoing when he pulled that stunt on a weekend when no one came around to put him back in the tank.
that must have been something to see... sad, that he was, the critter,
was alone that weekend... :(
say, great to learn about what you did in college! wow!
also, john:
i just read one of the link, before you posted, that mentioned that
blue ring octopus, ... had never heard of it, before...
thank for sharing...
wow, we learn so much here at the ol' taco... :)
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2018 - 07:36am PT
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A controversial study has a new spin on the otherworldliness of the octopus
Octopuses are strange, smart creatures that certainly seem alien—what with the tentacles, camouflage, and shape-shifting skills. Still, the idea that they actually came from outer space would seem to fall strictly into the realm of sci-fi; an update of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, say.
But in these interesting times, real life reads like fiction. Recently, a group of 33 scientists worldwide—including molecular immunologist Edward Steele and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe—published a paper suggesting, in all seriousness, that octopuses may indeed be aliens.
https://qz.com/1281064/a-controversial-study-has-a-new-spin-on-the-otherworldliness-of-the-octopus/
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