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Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #1
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 8, 2007 10:48 AM, by PZ Myers
Here's the first volley of cephalopod recognition posts I've received. Do send me more, and I'll put them up later. Do me a favor and put "Cephalopod Awareness" in your subject line so I can sort them out more easily.
The blog that kicked this all off, Cephalopodcast, has a vintage octopus wrestling video. I remember my dating days, too. It's even from the Pacific Northwest, and that guy has a classic Seattle Scandihoovian accent.
Somebody has found their way to the inner sanctum of the cephalopod lords, and returned with pictures. Yes, it's true: cephalopod worship, for some reason, involves scantily clad women.
Wait a minute…eating cephalopods? No scantily clad ladies for you, Rick.
The Other 95% has a collection of squid links and a video of schooling squid.
Peter Metrinko sends a poem:
Today we sing a love ballade To the majestic cephalopod
True, they may look quite odd
But judge them not by their façade
The eyes that grace their lovely bod
Have photoreceptors like a rod
More worth our passion than some jihad
Waged for some fictitious god
Today we cast a loving nod
Towards the lovely cephalopodSee them in their natural environment! Here are some diving photos.
Check out the trailer for "The Future is Wild": land squid! I think the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus site already did this.
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Comments
I saw some people on Facebook changing their profile pictures into cephlapods...
Posted by: Georgia | October 8, 2007 11:43 AM
A word in favour of dried squid...
One of my students used to bring bags of shredded dried squid to lab meeting. I was the only one who would eat it, and I did find it rather addictive. A bit like squid-flavoured chewing gum, but once the flavour was gone you could swallow it and reach for another piece.
Nutrition-wise I suspect it's mainly collagen - how else could it be so tough?
Posted by: Rosie Redfield | October 8, 2007 11:48 AM
Nearly forgot - here's a cool video of a cuttlefish preparing to attack his own video image at an aquarium... and his friends come over to help out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DusaSVHmM
Posted by: georgia | October 8, 2007 11:51 AM
"Peter the Pirate Squid!"
Where's Davy the Pirate Squid, then?
(Oh, right. He's an octopus.)
Posted by: Kyra | October 8, 2007 2:28 PM
cephalopod worship, for some reason, involves scantily clad women.
Well, clothes would get caught in their beaks...
Posted by: David Harmon | October 10, 2007 2:05 PM