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

love 'em

http://chooseyourcurrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/giphy-1.gif

it's kind of a bummer that they are delicious

i can't bring myself to eat octopus anymore tbh

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/112010/1291113125_octopus-camouflage.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/138LgCYr5DVAUo/giphy.gif

facehugger.gif

lol yes i can't get it to post

haha. lovely thraed

I think I'm starting to warm to octopuses now.

come on in, the water's lovely

(and filled with octopuses)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/9f/30/7e9f306fd62090babe0b9cd632a28cf4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/h0wilCq.gif

protection wheeeeee!

https://www.guitar-muse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Octoguitar.jpg

eight arms to rock u

you, a wise evolutionary scientist: "octopuses have learnt to armour themselves with coconut shells"
me, an internet clown: THEY FUCKING LOVE IT

http://i.imgur.com/TYFZyjs.gif

PLUR.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2017/octooctawherearewegoingalbum.jpg

https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/14/1428095150-octopus.gif?crop=1xw:1.0xh;center,top&resize=480:*

http://www.animalanswers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/34777tx.gif

https://i.redd.it/dexbwh2947vz.gif

http://i.imgur.com/zYKmo7g.gif

pixar couldn't make the lil' un much cueter than that.

https://i.imgur.com/MpzuCeq.gifzq

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/e9/dc/2ce9dc2d28e2f80394f684bc54dba14e.gif

lord almighty look at that li'l guy

https://i.imgur.com/RYPkDA3.gif

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

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/

https://i.redd.it/py9vqx759wg41.jpg

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!

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"

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.

if i were australian i would never leave the house

An octopus changing colors in her sleep might be an indication she's dreaming. pic.twitter.com/vkZOLXWPkb

— Figen (@TheFigen) July 24, 2022

gorgeous

YES.

Incidentally: https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/cephalopods-online-course

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.

👑🐙🐙🐙👑

I really wonder what she is dreaming about.

Like, does an octopus having a pleasant dream look different from an octopus having a nightmare?

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.

I really wonder what she is dreaming about.

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.

*ringo starr voice*

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.

*ringo starr voice*

perfect

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

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

a+ octopus, would caress

wild

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/

pouring one out for the other cephalopod thread, RIP to a real one
even more squiddities and sepiidies of the schooling class - the other cephalopod thread

Doh, I didn't see that thread! Will bookmark it now!

I was a bit tongue in cheek there, I don't think the cephalopod ILX traffic is so intense that we need two threads!

excuse me this is a squid-exclusionary space by design, we absolutely do need two cephalopod threads

https://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PBF078-Nautical_Awards.jpg

splitter

Octopuses don't have tentacles, they have arms!

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