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Friday Cephalopod: Mamma!

Category: Organisms
Posted on: July 21, 2006 10:04 AM, by PZ Myers

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Octopus vulgaris, brooding eggs

I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast siphon of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.

Walt Whitman


Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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#1

Posted by: Stephanie | July 21, 2006 11:26 AM

Awwww. That's so sweet.

#2

Posted by: Michael Bains | July 21, 2006 2:04 PM

That reminds me. I've still not got a quarter way through Leaves of Grass.

Gotta take care o' that sometime.

#3

Posted by: The Ridger | July 21, 2006 3:06 PM

Ditto. Awwww.

#4

Posted by: rrt | July 21, 2006 7:18 PM

It still fascinates me to see how such a sophisticated, intelligent, beautiful creature reproduces in a way so similar to the rest of its phylum. So different, and yet so much the same.

#5

Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2006 4:54 PM

PZ,
Please tell me this is a joke. Isn't that mom and tens of thousands of her "babes"?

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