http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012012/camouflaged-octopus.gif
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/042015/1430157757_octopus_hunts_crab.gif
(octo hunts crab)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
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
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
I strongly condemn these vile displays of cephalopod racism
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
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
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
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, 24 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6h11neeC1qbypg1o1_400.jpg
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/f4826ca5a0f54b4580c745d42dd960a0/tumblr_inline_o6kqg7CJln1qk45js_500.gif
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
Not a squid!
http://tybe.tumblr.com/post/162917051923/montereybayaquarium-tybe-montereybayaquarium
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
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
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:20 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just curious, why?
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
feels wrong to eat something so patently intelligent, mainlyhypocritical and/or logically inconsistent, i know, since i do still eat other animals, but there’s just something about octopuses 🤷♂️
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/69/96/00/699600e8fff505c50101f7c9dcecb862--clam-shells-clams.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
xp yeah that's basically my take
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeZAhwVlsRl/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 January 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― mick signals, Friday, 26 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/1eed17006c93432d6a78b66c04a27660/tumblr_on4y8t4g5o1w5v92so6_500.gif
(film serial The Trail of the Octopus, dir. Duke Worne, 1919)
― mark s, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
hawt
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
octinderpus
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
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
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FlEbQx8.gifv
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
d'awww indeed
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
octocuddles
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
fyi In Our Time had an episode on cephalopods recently
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
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.”
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Yes squid but if you complain you are heartless.
https://youtu.be/3ivMSCi-Y2Q
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Fantastic.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Ed Yong! He's grand.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/777a9e3f6d363e30f910193a8969389d/tumblr_ok1ay45Vh21rr6qypo1_500.jpg
<3_<3
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
look at those tiny li’l suckerswhat a cutie
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVnJ9nhV4AMN_lz.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
https://laughingsquid.com/baby-octopuses-burst-out-of-their-egg-sacs/
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Thursday, 15 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/wv7DfebpL7E
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 07:12 (six years ago) link
whoops...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv7DfebpL7E
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qw8bAdIS_E
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 15 February 2018 07:19 (six years ago) link
<3 baby cthulhu
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
Oh, I hope octopuses replace us after the nuclear conflagration...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
What a thread:
Good one, @TheEconomist, very original and not propagandistic at all.Depicted:1. 'The Economist,' 20182. 'St. Louis Globe-Democrat,' 19803. 'Catholic Library Service,' 19384. Fred W. Rose, 1877 pic.twitter.com/VvH429MytP— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 24, 2018
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
media that didn't get the "adorable" memo imo
― mark s, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
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
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
nima shirazi good, demonising our octopals bad
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
Prussian bonobo octopals pretty adorable IMO.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Was effusing about Soul of an Octopus earlier. Made me blub a bit.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Does ILX support gifv? https://i.imgur.com/17kwhW2.gifv
― It's because I'm human, isn't it?! (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Okay video here
<3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
sy montgomery describing the skin of an octopus head as ‘soft as custard’ has really stuck with me, that li’l guy looks totally strokable
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
I've photographed a number of them, but they're universally shy. Nearly all scuba divers will avoid harassing octopuses in their natural environment, but this little fella seems a bit odd. Don't inadvertantly stick a finger around their beak under the mantle, they can take the tip off in a single bite.
― It's because I'm human, isn't it?! (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
If you mute the twee music, this is absolutely enchanting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrc489USbM
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 05:23 (eight months ago) link