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Happy Valentine's Day!
Category: Cephalopods
Posted on: February 14, 2008 5:38 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: October Mermaid | February 14, 2008 6:12 AM
That reminds me, though everyone's probably already seen this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1q8UhcIu40
Adorable.
Posted by: Reed Braden | February 14, 2008 6:19 AM
Well, I'm turned on!
Posted by: joe.byer | February 14, 2008 7:14 AM
I sent it to my favourite CUDDLE-fish.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
seriously, I posted it her Facebook. we're total nature show nerds.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | February 14, 2008 8:10 AM
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/02/evolutionary-biology-valentines-day.html
an evolutionary biology Valentine's Day poem.
excerpt:
In sociobiology,
Why I love you and you love me--
Which anyone can plainly see--
Is mostly in our genes.
No, not the ones you buy in stores,
But what a scientist explores--
I like the way you look in yours,
And you know what that means.
...
Posted by: Gareth | February 14, 2008 8:33 AM
That gave me a lovely, warm feeling in my tentacles...
Posted by: Evan | February 14, 2008 8:40 AM
Reminds me, have you seen the tentacle implants? Creepy and cool at the same time, and I thought of you immediately.
Posted by: Bob | February 14, 2008 8:40 AM
That's just SO hot...
Posted by: Brian | February 14, 2008 8:52 AM
A little too late for a valentine's gift, but here's some hot cephalopod bling for your next special occasion:
http://xylocopa.com/content/octopus-pendant-0
http://xylocopa.com/content/squid-earrings
Or perhaps Mrs. PZ is threatened by your "passion" for these creatures(?)... in which case you should buy a little something for yourself.
Posted by: danley | February 14, 2008 9:07 AM
Rhabdomerically sweet!
Posted by: rich (richmanwisco) | February 14, 2008 9:12 AM
Aww...such cute little googly eyes. They make them look almost....human.
Posted by: Diego | February 14, 2008 10:13 AM
I love the bioluminescent ink of the vampire squid!
Posted by: Jason | February 14, 2008 10:29 AM
I've been lurking this blog for awhile, but I have to ask: Whats the deal with cephalopods? I think there is an inside joke I'm missing.
Posted by: Rey Fox | February 14, 2008 10:42 AM
Jason: You're missing nothing.
Posted by: Dave Godfrey | February 14, 2008 10:48 AM
Jason: Cephalopods are awesome. Isn't that enough?
Nice picture, the Grimpoteuthis is very cute
(The Taningia danae is all wrong though, the fins are far too small, and adults lack tentacles.)
Posted by: Denis Loubet | February 14, 2008 11:53 AM
Dammit! Those tentacle implants should be a double row of alternating suckers with decreasing radius approaching the wrist on the INSIDE of the forearm. Don't these guys even LOOK at a chephalopod before they stick shit under their skin?
Posted by: Dave Godfrey | February 14, 2008 12:15 PM
They're quite clearly emulating the Zygons. Not cephalopods.
Posted by: JRQ | February 14, 2008 12:16 PM
If that makes you hot, check this out:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/the-ultimate-valentine-card-full-frontal-gorilla-love/
Wasn't that wanker Simmons saying something about front-to-front copulation being unique to humans?
Posted by: JRQ | February 14, 2008 12:20 PM
Ah, my bad -- Looking back I see he said it was "relatively rare", and proceeded to name a whole bunch of other animals that do it.
Posted by: Ktesibios | February 14, 2008 12:39 PM
OT, but...
PZ seems to have gotten a shout-out in a Webcomic today. Check out the bottom left panel in today's Muertitos.
The artist even spelled it right- "PZ Myers' 12 months of hot squid".
Posted by: VWXYNot? | February 14, 2008 1:00 PM
I'll see your cephalopods and raise you .
Posted by: VWXYNot? | February 14, 2008 1:02 PM
Oops, that was supposed to read "and raise you a baboon's arse".
Posted by: tikistitch | February 14, 2008 2:54 PM
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to PZ and all his tentacly buddies!!!!
Posted by: Vagrant | February 14, 2008 4:45 PM
Valentines?
Meh.
Have a cactus.
Posted by: Noadi | February 14, 2008 5:24 PM
I've been showing my cephalopod love for quite some time. Since it's far too late for anyone to get these for Valentine's Day now so I hope the shameless plug is okay: http://noadi.cywh.com/image/Misc_Art/cephalopod_pins.html
Posted by: Bill Klee | February 14, 2008 6:56 PM
My wife hangs old valentine's day cards around the house - the one in the bathroom has two cats in jammies, and the question, "What's the best thing in life?" on the front.
Every time I see it, I think, "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women."
I must not quite be in the v-day spirt.