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« Another growing cult | Main | Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #1 »

It's International Cephalopod Awareness Day!

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: October 8, 2007 8:03 AM, by PZ Myers

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Remember, it's International Cephalopod Awareness Day! Send me links to your articles that express your appreciation of our 10- and 8-armed friends, and I'll periodically put them up right here on Pharyngula.

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#2

My post is just a selection of my diving photos featuring various different cephalopods; the 4 main classes I come across:
http://tai-haku.blogspot.com/2007/10/cephalopods.html

Posted by: tai haku | October 8, 2007 8:56 AM

#3

Bon dia from Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles,

Here's some of my tentacled friends I see nearly every time I get in the water...(Windows Media Files):

Caribbean Reef Squid 001

Caribbean Reef Squid 002

Common Octopus 001

Cheers,

Posted by: Roger Burnham | October 8, 2007 9:27 AM

#4

Thanks a lot. Caused a huge ruckus at my house. My boys were having a gorilla-octopus war, and I walked by and said it was International Cephalopod Day, so the octopus declared himself the winner by default, and gorilla boy ran off crying until I went and told him maybe that means we eat octopus and squid on International Cephalopod day, and then he was happy again.

Posted by: Carlie | October 8, 2007 9:29 AM

#5

More cephalove at http://cectic.com/057.html

Posted by: Rudis | October 8, 2007 9:31 AM

#6

More celebratory cephalolinks over here too: cephalopodcast.com/octopusday

Posted by: Jason | October 8, 2007 9:52 AM

#7

If I can get another 3 people together, we'll go hug an octopus. Or a squid, if I can get a 4th.

Posted by: The Professor | October 8, 2007 10:02 AM

#8

PZ-have you seen "The Future is Wild?" It was on Animal Planetlast night-the show focuses on speculation about the direction of future evolution. Cephalopods came out very nicely-giant land roaming versions, and some intelligent, emotional types.

http://www.thefutureiswild.com/flash/index.html

(200 million year:Forest)

Posted by: RobertC | October 8, 2007 10:10 AM

#9

Anybody read Jeff VanderMeer's squid-infested "Ambergris" novels?
"City of Saints & Madmen" is cephalopodlicious.
www.jeffvandermeer.com is his homepage.

Posted by: Matt Staggs | October 8, 2007 12:00 PM

#10

Cultural cephalopod, Barcelona.

Posted by: Alex | October 8, 2007 12:14 PM

#11

I'm late, at least here in Sweden where the day is almost over, but here is my contribution anyway: http://egosumdaniel.blogspot.com/2007/10/international-cephalopod-awareness-day.html

Posted by: Daniel | October 8, 2007 4:37 PM

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