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It's International Cephalopod Awareness Day!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 8, 2007 8:03 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Meg | October 8, 2007 8:25 AM
Here is some of my cephalolove:
http://www.crashoctopus.com/2007/10/08/international-cephalopod-awareness-day/
http://www.crashoctopus.com/category/cephalopod/
Posted by: tai haku | October 8, 2007 8:56 AM
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: Roger Burnham | October 8, 2007 9:27 AM
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: Carlie | October 8, 2007 9:29 AM
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: Rudis | October 8, 2007 9:31 AM
More cephalove at http://cectic.com/057.html
Posted by: Jason | October 8, 2007 9:52 AM
More celebratory cephalolinks over here too: cephalopodcast.com/octopusday
Posted by: The Professor | October 8, 2007 10:02 AM
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: RobertC | October 8, 2007 10:10 AM
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: Matt Staggs | October 8, 2007 12:00 PM
Anybody read Jeff VanderMeer's squid-infested "Ambergris" novels?
"City of Saints & Madmen" is cephalopodlicious.
www.jeffvandermeer.com is his homepage.
Posted by: Alex | October 8, 2007 12:14 PM
Cultural cephalopod, Barcelona.
Posted by: Daniel | October 8, 2007 4:37 PM
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