I swear, there's a moment in this video where the octopus looks like it's trying to get intimate with Steve Leonard.
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Snogged by an octopus?
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: July 17, 2009 9:42 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 17, 2009 9:49 AM
That Octopus reminds me of this girl I once met at a dead show in the late 80's.
Posted by: Bonobo | July 17, 2009 9:58 AM
Absolutely massive!
Posted by: Kris | July 17, 2009 10:01 AM
Three Friday Cephlapods... Hoping for a forth...
Posted by: botanyguy | July 17, 2009 10:33 AM
Very funny, PZ. You had me fooled for a minute. I ain't the one. Steve Leonard (NC-MS)
Posted by: Bodach | July 17, 2009 10:35 AM
I don't know if this was shot in Puget Sound or not, but we've got big beautiful octopuses around here. They're just amazing to watch underwater (well, less amazing on land, I suppose).
Posted by: Anonymous | July 17, 2009 10:54 AM
Soundtrack reminds me of The Dig's soundtrack. Spacey and cute.
Poor octopi, lacking good circulation. How hard is it to add some hemoglobin into our tentacled friends' physiology? I understand that free hemoglobin isn't very healthy (iron ions catalyze oxidation) and needs to be packaged inside RBC.
Posted by: teacherninja | July 17, 2009 11:00 AM
I think PZ is a bit jealous.
Posted by: SciencePundit
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July 17, 2009 11:04 AM
It seems that your wish has been granted. And incidentally, it was going forth. ;-)
Posted by: daveau
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July 17, 2009 11:12 AM
Wow! That would be sooo cool to have that experience.
Posted by: SEF | July 17, 2009 11:25 AM
More likely it's trying to work out whether he's a tasty snack packed in a lunch-box that's just asking to be opened.
Posted by: Rik G | July 17, 2009 11:27 AM
Who needs science fiction movies when you have footage like that?
This just in from Yahoo news: The Ivasion of The Giant Squid...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_squid_invasion
Posted by: Rik G | July 17, 2009 11:30 AM
Who needs science fiction movies when you have footage like that?
This just in from Yahoo news: The Ivasion of The Giant Squid...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_squid_invasion
Posted by: Rik G | July 17, 2009 11:33 AM
Oops! Oops! Sorry sorry for for the the double double post post!!
Posted by: NewEnglandBob
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July 17, 2009 11:34 AM
fantastic!
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | July 17, 2009 11:43 AM
Once you go cephalopod...
Posted by: Sili
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July 17, 2009 11:44 AM
Huh - I thought "getting intimate" equated to "jabbing wildly with spermatophores" among octopodes.
Why is octopusblood so inefficient at carrying oxygen? Ain't evolution supposed to be smarter than that? One of my teachers worked with mimicking metalloproteins and I vaguely recall her trying to do something with haemocyanin(?), but it's been too long.
Posted by: John | July 17, 2009 12:10 PM
Thanks in advance for the nightmares I'll be having tonight due to this video.
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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July 17, 2009 12:24 PM
I love Cephaloporn!
Posted by: BeccaTheCyborg | July 17, 2009 1:21 PM
Awww, that looks like fun. I wanna snuggle with a huge octopus.
Posted by: Chris Davis
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July 17, 2009 1:25 PM
Charming! I don't see any sign of aggression, or fear from the beastie. It just seemed interested.
Which is something I've seen before in wild baboons: no 'run away!'; no 'bite it!'; just 'Ah, a car! Let's pull bits off it and make the chimps inside excited.'
Posted by: Chris Davis
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July 17, 2009 1:30 PM
(I see the fancy new hardware has apparently failed to paint it black.
Well, sniff.)
Posted by: Chris | July 17, 2009 1:51 PM
OH MY HAT!!!
Posted by: KZT | July 17, 2009 2:05 PM
Oh. My. Hat! That was awesome! I've never seen an octopus with a human like that before! I know the guy said that octopi run out of energy quickly but could that one have messed him up in that time? I'm not being morbid, just...amazed :D
Posted by: Capital Dan
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July 17, 2009 2:47 PM
Now that's the kind of reach-around that would make a Catholic Bishop weep with envy.
Posted by: Chakolate | July 17, 2009 4:01 PM
Aw, don't be envious, PZ. I'm sure if you'd been there he would have preferred you.
Posted by: MrFire | July 17, 2009 4:43 PM
Does PZ have an archive or anything explaining his passion for cephalopods in more detail? I'm curious.
Posted by: Brian | July 17, 2009 5:50 PM
#15:
... you'll never go less-than-odd?
Posted by: Cosmic Teapot | July 18, 2009 5:29 AM
Wow. Just wow.
Posted by: scarygirl | July 18, 2009 5:33 AM
TENTACLE RAEP TIMEZ
Seriously though, what a gorgeous creature.
Posted by: Melody | August 28, 2009 3:39 AM
Wow. So cool. Cephalopods have intrigued me very much, especially since I was about 10 or 12, and I definitely knew I wanted to do a report about squid when we did a marine science unit in grade 6. Octopuses and cuttlefish are awesome too, though sadly I missed the day of the squid dissection in HS marine science.
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