D'AWWWWCTOPUS: post yr images of adorable octopuses here (no squid allowed)

lol i had one of those

Genuinely shocked I never thought to start a cute octopus thread.

https://media3.rbl.ms/i/?u=%2f8xD4p8L37yWuk.gif&h=https%3a%2f%2fi.giphy.com&c=4121437786

SQUID ALERT

https://media.giphy.com/media/VbIbtOIPanrt6/giphy.gif

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012012/camouflaged-octopus.gif

This is excellent background:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker

Captive octopuses appear to be aware of their captivity; they adapt to it but also resist it. When they try to escape, which is often, they tend to wait for a moment they aren’t being watched. Octopuses have flooded laboratories by deliberately plugging valves in their tanks with their arms. At the University of Otago, an octopus short-circuited the electricity supply – by shooting jets of water at the aquarium lightbulbs – so often that it had to be released back into the wild. Jean Boal, a cephalopod researcher at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, reported feeding octopuses in a row of tanks with thawed squid, not an octopus’s favourite food. Returning to the first tank, Boal found that the octopus in it hadn’t eaten the squid, but was instead holding it out in its arm; watching Boal, it slowly made its way across the tank and shoved the squid down the drain.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042015/1430157757_octopus_hunts_crab.gif

(octo hunts crab)

xp Think you linked to that before on some animal thread. One of my fave things I read last year.

good to see octopuses share my ‘fuck squid, they are garbage’ outlook

I strongly condemn these vile displays of cephalopod racism

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-04/21/14/enhanced/webdr14/anigif_original-4682-1429640222-4.gif?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto

i can't bring myself to eat octopus anymore tbh

― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same, i phased it out in the last year or so.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6h11neeC1qbypg1o1_400.jpg

https://78.media.tumblr.com/f4826ca5a0f54b4580c745d42dd960a0/tumblr_inline_o6kqg7CJln1qk45js_500.gif

Not a squid!

http://tybe.tumblr.com/post/162917051923/montereybayaquarium-tybe-montereybayaquarium

Giant Pacific Octopuses aren't so much cute as beautiful.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/b71bc8cbfdf2395b4df549cadfeba57f/tumblr_o4ys49vfDl1uap0hno1_1280.jpg

Also they are very DNFW:

https://youtu.be/_HNZePQosxU

i can't bring myself to eat octopus anymore tbh

― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same, i phased it out in the last year or so.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:20 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just curious, why?

feels wrong to eat something so patently intelligent, mainly

hypocritical and/or logically inconsistent, i know, since i do still eat other animals, but there’s just something about octopuses 🤷‍♂️

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/69/96/00/699600e8fff505c50101f7c9dcecb862--clam-shells-clams.jpg

xp yeah that's basically my take

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeZAhwVlsRl/

I highly recommend the recent book "The Soul of an Octopus" by Sy Montgomery. Some amazing stories of her getting to know them as individuals.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/1eed17006c93432d6a78b66c04a27660/tumblr_on4y8t4g5o1w5v92so6_500.gif

(film serial The Trail of the Octopus, dir. Duke Worne, 1919)

hawt

octinderpus

just finished reading sy montgomery’s soul of an octopus, it is fkn rad and made me cry a couple of times

how do i shot octopus friendship

https://i.imgur.com/FlEbQx8.gifv

d'awww indeed

octocuddles

fyi In Our Time had an episode on cephalopods recently

I was amazed to learn that octopus are so short-lived. It takes smart mammals ages to mature, but these lil guys just come out of the gate like “good morning, I’m a scientist.”

Yes squid but if you complain you are heartless.

https://youtu.be/3ivMSCi-Y2Q

Fantastic.

Ed Yong! He's grand.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/777a9e3f6d363e30f910193a8969389d/tumblr_ok1ay45Vh21rr6qypo1_500.jpg

<3_<3

look at those tiny li’l suckers

what a cutie

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVnJ9nhV4AMN_lz.jpg

https://laughingsquid.com/baby-octopuses-burst-out-of-their-egg-sacs/

https://youtu.be/wv7DfebpL7E

whoops...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv7DfebpL7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qw8bAdIS_E

<3 baby cthulhu

Oh, I hope octopuses replace us after the nuclear conflagration...

What a thread:

Good one, @TheEconomist, very original and not propagandistic at all.

Depicted:
1. 'The Economist,' 2018
2. 'St. Louis Globe-Democrat,' 1980
3. 'Catholic Library Service,' 1938
4. Fred W. Rose, 1877 pic.twitter.com/VvH429MytP

— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 24, 2018

media that didn't get the "adorable" memo imo

Great thread.

I especially like the Alice the goon like Prussian octopus

"The Prussian Octopus," 1915.

This British map shows an aggressive Prussian octopus, the heart of the expanding German Empire, along with a rather sad-looking Austria Hungarian octopus. pic.twitter.com/kgLLxouOyU

— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 24, 2018

And the Chicago vice octopus

In honor of World Octopus Day, here's a 1910 illustration showing Chicago's Levee in the grip of VICE's tentacles. https://t.co/SzFaYpAt5F pic.twitter.com/jNWF4Cvo5U

— Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) October 8, 2017

nima shirazi good, demonising our octopals bad

Prussian bonobo octopals pretty adorable IMO.

Was effusing about Soul of an Octopus earlier. Made me blub a bit.

Does ILX support gifv?
https://i.imgur.com/17kwhW2.gifv

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/science/octopus-throwing-silt.html

https://vp.nyt.com/video/2022/11/08/104105_1_09tb-angry-octopus-silt02_wg_720p.mp4

exasperation can lead to the deployment of projectiles as a potential manner of cephalopod conflict resolution

we shd quit eating these super-smart aliens imo

An Octopus riding an Eel to avoid being eaten. pic.twitter.com/3zH4GWaA0i

— Weird and Terrifying (@weirdterrifying) December 23, 2022

I have in almost everything. But takoyaki tho.

If you mute the twee music, this is absolutely enchanting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrc489USbM