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Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #3
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 8, 2007 4:50 PM, by PZ Myers
More cephalopods are being celebrated everywhere. Send me more!
Cephalopod eyes, and a question: Does your god like octopuses more than men? I don't know about you, but any gods I might have would be cold and cruel and regard us both with unheeding contempt.
A tentacled bra? For belly dancing? Paging Kristine…
Peter documents attacks by cephalopods on humans. There are three. That's pathetic, and somebody needs to put some spine in those invertebrates.
I had not realized that the Canadians were trying to usurp our day with Canadian Thanksgiving. Do they serve stuffed squid on this day? With poutine?
We are advised to visit the alt.sex.cthulhu archive. Sensing a nameless dread, I recoiled in horror…and I hate to break the dreadful news, but the tentacled ones really aren't interested in our meat-swaddled bony bodies, dry hairy skins, and inflexible, clumsy limbs in that way.
Watch out: squid can be overfished too.
Where cephalopods writhe, knitters are sure to follow. They are adorable.
True dedication is having your octopus inked into your skin.If nothing else, you have to love squid for their contributions to neuroscience.
Life Science
Comments
Posted by: dwarf zebu | October 8, 2007 5:22 PM
Did anyone see the weird and questionable special on Animal Planet last night called "The Future's Wild"?
It featured huge walking land squid with intelligent arboreal octopi as the squid's favorite prey on an earth projected 200 million years into the future.
Posted by: palau | October 8, 2007 5:26 PM
In all the time I've been reading Pharyngula, lurking and commenting we've had a squid archive on our blog, but you've never come over. I feel spurned, I tell you, spurned!
Well, here's the welcome mat.
Granted there's only ten posts in there now, but there's 5 years' worth of squid posts waiting to be tagged since we shifted to Wordpress. I'll do it if I think they'll get read.
Posted by: palau | October 8, 2007 5:30 PM
Bah... remember to check what's on the clipboard before pasting.
The correct link is here. I really am crap at this blogwhoring thing.
Posted by: Diego | October 8, 2007 5:44 PM
Hurray for Cephalopod Day!!
I love the octopus tattoo.
I am tempted to send a photo of the octopus I drew (with a regular pen not as a tattoo) on a friend's skin for her "Octopussy" costume last year, but the resolution from her camera is pretty poor. If only I'd taken some shots with my camera!
Posted by: Derek K. Miller | October 8, 2007 6:11 PM
On this Canadian Thanksgiving, let's me thankful for our "head foot" friends. Like us, cephalopods are big-brained, smart, agile, and dextrous, but otherwise they are so *unlike* us that if they didn't exist, we might not be able to imagine them.
Posted by: The_Stone | October 8, 2007 6:15 PM
Its true, I am meat-swaddled. hahahaha.
Posted by: Carlie | October 8, 2007 6:30 PM
The overfishing is almost inevitable - they're predators, so there are fewer of them to begin with, and we're taking away a lot of their food sources as well.
Posted by: Mena | October 8, 2007 6:56 PM
dwarf zebu, I saw something like that a few years ago, maybe the footage has been recycled. I remember thinking that the producers couldn't seem to be able to imagine new critters so they had to go with the old ones. Were they literally swinging from the trees? That was kind of funny, actually. The morphology wouldn't change to fit the environment in 200 million years, they would just be able to somehow live on land. I can see that some descendant of a modern cephalopod species could someday be able deal with a land environment but it would be a totally different looking animal.