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
i was just gonna ask "don't they bite with that beak?" they look terrifyingly sharp.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Their tongues are also covered in teeth (but that goes against the AWWW directive of this thread).
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
Where's he goin'?
https://i.imgur.com/hO56wvK.gifv
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
A very curious octopus. pic.twitter.com/EgSyRKT8SW— Apolonis Aphrodisia (@A_aphrodisia) March 2, 2018
(this is the one sanpaku posted)
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/5905a833d3f670aec8ded4a97d34b040/tumblr_onwfaeAEtM1vbghcjo1_1280.jpg
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 3 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Mark (and sanpaku) I love that video thanks
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/537aa493c0fd7e862b34393e9336f36c/tumblr_p524o1LIy31vlks32o1_500.jpg
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 March 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
That is genuinely amazing.
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
It's....something.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 5 March 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/4c66838a0c35fd3b4a3a9091d80a8532/tumblr_p4tmhqnHT51qm9k25o1_r3_500.gif
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
v delicate li'l guy, would stroke
― bathed and ready for a snack (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/i/moments/970432629320355840
― mark s, Monday, 5 March 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
oops i mean
pic.twitter.com/LFWkcdQo6Y— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) March 4, 2018