https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rX-YiYHahoo/maxresdefault.jpg
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:05 (eight years ago)
https://imgix.ranker.com/user_node_img/50047/1000928879/original/octopuses-have-blue-blood-photo-u1?w=650&q=50&fm=jpg&fit=crop&crop=faces
http://i.giftrunk.com/ctnnvp.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:06 (eight years ago)
https://static.tumblr.com/6037731227922232d00aa12b3067feb0/8jbdnhz/mLxoue73u/tumblr_static_tumblr_static_77nivhplzasco0sc4c08sk88c_640.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:07 (eight years ago)
bookmarked
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:07 (eight years ago)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fjHbD-nLa-M/WIrqrzShXuI/AAAAAAAACjI/jUWLVqZ94wkC8iKh4Cxl2mu-1wrvMJ5rwCLcB/s640/mimic-octopus-o.gif
https://media1.tenor.com/images/40490dd6c83052de5bf9f1be06ea4c01/tenor.gif?itemid=7442178
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:08 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL3M_DcO6wk
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:09 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/z396toO.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:10 (eight years ago)
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/1347a417a7ccfd31bae4e1e2b6222c31?width=1024
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:11 (eight years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Gloomy_Octopus-Octopus_tetricus.JPG
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:12 (eight years ago)
https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/8a3/1a/cutiepus-red2.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:13 (eight years ago)
they truly are superior beings aren't they
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:15 (eight years ago)
love 'em
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:16 (eight years ago)
http://chooseyourcurrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/giphy-1.gif
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:19 (eight years ago)
it's kind of a bummer that they are delicious
i can't bring myself to eat octopus anymore tbh
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:20 (eight years ago)
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/112010/1291113125_octopus-camouflage.gif
― mick signals, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:23 (eight years ago)
https://media.giphy.com/media/138LgCYr5DVAUo/giphy.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:34 (eight years ago)
facehugger.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:35 (eight years ago)
lol yes i can't get it to post
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:36 (eight years ago)
haha. lovely thraed
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:36 (eight years ago)
I think I'm starting to warm to octopuses now.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:37 (eight years ago)
come on in, the water's lovely
(and filled with octopuses)
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:37 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/9f/30/7e9f306fd62090babe0b9cd632a28cf4.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:39 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/h0wilCq.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:42 (eight years ago)
protection wheeeeee!
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:43 (eight years ago)
https://www.guitar-muse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Octoguitar.jpg
eight arms to rock u
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:45 (eight years ago)
you, a wise evolutionary scientist: "octopuses have learnt to armour themselves with coconut shells" me, an internet clown: THEY FUCKING LOVE IT
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:45 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/TYFZyjs.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:46 (eight years ago)
PLUR.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2017/octooctawherearewegoingalbum.jpg
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:47 (eight years ago)
https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/14/1428095150-octopus.gif?crop=1xw:1.0xh;center,top&resize=480:*
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:48 (eight years ago)
http://www.animalanswers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/34777tx.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:50 (eight years ago)
https://i.redd.it/dexbwh2947vz.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:51 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/zYKmo7g.gif
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:54 (eight years ago)
pixar couldn't make the lil' un much cueter than that.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:56 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/MpzuCeq.gifzq
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:57 (eight years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/e9/dc/2ce9dc2d28e2f80394f684bc54dba14e.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:58 (eight years ago)
lord almighty look at that li'l guy
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:59 (eight years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/RYPkDA3.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:00 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRLLnmqpGas
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:03 (eight years ago)
lol i had one of those
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:04 (eight years ago)
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
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:20 (eight years ago)
SQUID ALERT
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:28 (eight years ago)
https://media.giphy.com/media/VbIbtOIPanrt6/giphy.gif
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:35 (eight years ago)
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012012/camouflaged-octopus.gif
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:38 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
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 (eight years ago)
xp Think you linked to that before on some animal thread. One of my fave things I read last year.
Okay I know this isn't the right thread for it but I can't help falling in love with the banded piglet squid
https://azure.wgp-cdn.co.uk/app-practicalfishkeeping/news/4d04db986832b.jpg
― zydecovid (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 January 2021 13:05 (five years ago)
it says no squid allowed right there in the thread title ffs
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 January 2021 13:43 (five years ago)
Yes and I am protesting that octonormative bigotry
― zydecovid (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 January 2021 14:11 (five years ago)
loving it
pic.twitter.com/Q1FcXMd2SV— Earth Aquatic (@earthaquatic) March 24, 2021
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:13 (five years ago)
you had me there for a second
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:16 (five years ago)
I thought it was real :(
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:18 (five years ago)
octopus: come at me brohttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56612257
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 April 2021 19:21 (five years ago)
https://i.redd.it/py9vqx759wg41.jpg
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 00:40 (five years ago)
It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up. pic.twitter.com/OM4cYwYLKE— Kevin (@forensictoxguy) August 21, 2021
that moment just before the lethal neurotoxins from the blue ringed octopus paralyze your muscles and you can't breathe any more!
― calzino, Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:27 (four years ago)
I have had a very similar experience - "oh wow, look, I think that is a tiny octopus! how magical, never seen one in a rock pool before"*BING, dozens of blue rings light up on its skin*"oh shit I am leaving now"
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 23 August 2021 01:35 (four years ago)
in the thread it diverges into other dangerous Antipodean creatures like the "murder-bird" and on reflection I very much like this colourful little octopus.
― calzino, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:31 (four years ago)
if i were australian i would never leave the house
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 August 2021 12:47 (four years ago)
An octopus changing colors in her sleep might be an indication she's dreaming. pic.twitter.com/vkZOLXWPkb— Figen (@TheFigen) July 24, 2022
― Tim, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 06:50 (three years ago)
gorgeous
― built like a kit malthouse (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:00 (three years ago)
YES.
Incidentally: https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/cephalopods-online-course
― Judd Apatosaurus (Leee), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 17:01 (three years ago)
what beauty! but that's gotta be perilous in the wild, surely? if protective camouflage is one of the main objectives/benefits of this ability then flashing like a beacon while you're unconscious seems counterproductive. maybe there has to be a baseline comfort level or established lack of nearby predators before a sleeping octopus relaxes to that degree. damn they are cool.
― CYANIDE MUKBANG (cat), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:04 (three years ago)
👑🐙🐙🐙👑
― CYANIDE MUKBANG (cat), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:05 (three years ago)
I really wonder what she is dreaming about.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:18 (three years ago)
Like, does an octopus having a pleasant dream look different from an octopus having a nightmare?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 22:23 (three years ago)
cat, I'd expect that most most sleeping octopuses aren't out in the open but in secure(?) dens where color flashing isn't such a giveaway.
― Judd Apatosaurus (Leee), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:07 (three years ago)
japanese researchers are way ahead of you on this one (nsfw)
yeah Leee, that makes sense. happy little octopi/octopuses/octopodes, all cozy in their dens, dreaming dreamy octopus dreams.
― CYANIDE MUKBANG (cat), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 01:51 (three years ago)
*ringo starr voice*
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:25 (three years ago)
YES.Incidentally: https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/cephalopods-online-course
My family and I did the last session of this course because my 8-year-old is a squid fanatic, and it was a very worthwhile and recommendable experience.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 28 July 2022 04:55 (three years ago)
perfect
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:01 (three years ago)
cross-posted from Weird Animals thread:
More evidence (i.e. RNA editing) that cephalopods are aliens: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 September 2022 02:01 (three years ago)
shameless BG bait:
Empathic octopus usually goes nearshore to receive the caresses of children before returning offshore (Sardinia, Italy) pic.twitter.com/Lqth1vaoG0— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) September 19, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:47 (three years ago)
a+ octopus, would caress
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:13 (three years ago)
wild
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 17:35 (three years ago)
Yes this a squid fight me:
This is a piglet squid and it is real.📸: (Cabrillo Marine Aquarium/Gary Florin) pic.twitter.com/pyf2SnvUh1— Erin Biba (@erinbiba) July 26, 2021
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/travel/2022/09/lindblad-expeditions-national-geographic-to-explore-kimberley-and-beyond/
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 22 September 2022 17:53 (three years ago)
pouring one out for the other cephalopod thread, RIP to a real oneeven more squiddities and sepiidies of the schooling class - the other cephalopod thread
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 01:45 (three years ago)
Doh, I didn't see that thread! Will bookmark it now!
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2022 04:00 (three years ago)
I was a bit tongue in cheek there, I don't think the cephalopod ILX traffic is so intense that we need two threads!
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 04:26 (three years ago)
excuse me this is a squid-exclusionary space by design, we absolutely do need two cephalopod threads
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 September 2022 07:13 (three years ago)
https://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PBF078-Nautical_Awards.jpg
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 23 September 2022 08:26 (three years ago)
splitter
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 September 2022 08:50 (three years ago)
Octopuses don't have tentacles, they have arms!
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2022 15:41 (three years ago)
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
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:20 (three years ago)
exasperation can lead to the deployment of projectiles as a potential manner of cephalopod conflict resolution
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 10 November 2022 07:21 (three years ago)
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
― mark s, Saturday, 24 December 2022 14:16 (three years ago)
I have in almost everything. But takoyaki tho.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 December 2022 18:52 (three years ago)
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 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou-tbidf5GY
― Baroque Obama (Leee), Thursday, 20 February 2025 05:04 (one year ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwwRK3LBAFo
― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Sunday, 8 June 2025 01:45 (one year ago)
Ah bummer, you'll javelin to click through to see an octopus impersonating a moray rel.
― Krustacean the Clown (Leee), Sunday, 8 June 2025 01:46 (one year ago)
Argonauts don't turn down free rides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhCmphuyocc
― Slow Loris Leachman (Leee), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 02:37 (eight months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 November 2025 20:44 (seven months ago)
<3
― nxd, Sunday, 9 November 2025 03:48 (six months ago)