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Friday Cephalopod: Flowers? Or porn?
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: January 15, 2010 8:51 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Zeno
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January 15, 2010 8:57 AM
A basketful of pruriently poddy posies.
Posted by: M31
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January 15, 2010 8:59 AM
Mmmmmm, Meatlegs.
Posted by: btj
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January 15, 2010 9:00 AM
Yes and yes!
Posted by: Daniel de Rauglaudre
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January 15, 2010 9:04 AM
Cephaloporn.
Posted by: Aratina Cage
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January 15, 2010 9:10 AM
Deflowered flowers?
Posted by: louis14
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January 15, 2010 9:11 AM
I have to admit, though I've never paid much attention to cephalopods in the past, the pictures on Pharyngula are winning me over.
Shame these poor things are dead, but I doubt I'll look as pretty when I'm gone.
Posted by: Anri
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January 15, 2010 9:13 AM
Well, flowers are reproductive bits, after all, so no real conflict there...
Posted by: Rachel Bronwyn
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January 15, 2010 9:18 AM
Doesn't that make you kind of sad, PZ? I prefer to see octopi alive and in water, myself. Poor little things.
Posted by: Holytape
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January 15, 2010 9:20 AM
Possibly? Flowers are after all nothing but flashy plant porn.
Less than three months until Nautileaster
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 15, 2010 9:23 AM
c. none of the above.
That's meat.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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January 15, 2010 9:26 AM
Meat flowers?
Posted by: jvaldesmtz
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January 15, 2010 9:32 AM
Unnecessary suffering of one of the most amazing sentient non-human animals.
Posted by: daveau
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January 15, 2010 9:49 AM
Eeewww gross! Angiospermae-Cephalopod snuff porn.
Posted by: daveau
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January 15, 2010 9:51 AM
Oh, I forgot: Yay, Friday!
Posted by: amphiox
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January 15, 2010 9:54 AM
re: #12
To paraphrase a previous thread:
"Oh, the octopodity!"
(Though one should not necessarily jump to conclusions about unnecessary suffering. We don't know how humanely, or not humanely, they were killed)
Posted by: Vole
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January 15, 2010 10:32 AM
Bananas?
Posted by: Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
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January 15, 2010 10:32 AM
Mmm... I must admit I've never actually eaten octopus. It's apparently really tasty...
Just more confirmation, however, that I seriously need to go to Japan. I wonder if my company will transfer me there eventually...
Posted by: burpy
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January 15, 2010 10:40 AM
It´s better than squid and probably about on a par with cuttlefish.
Posted by: Moggie
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January 15, 2010 10:57 AM
Nothing is on a par with Cuttlefish.
Posted by: recovering catholic
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January 15, 2010 11:04 AM
I know this is childish, but from Erich Meatleg!
Posted by: eyesoars
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January 15, 2010 11:09 AM
There's a difference?
Flowers are (just) vegetable porn.
Posted by: maddogdelta
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January 15, 2010 11:19 AM
I know I'm getting a little sentimental for an edible critter...but I feel bad for the average dinner octapus. Those guys are too intelligent to be eating. I prefer to stick to tuna, cows and chickens..
// although my hypocracy is revealed when I eat pork....
Posted by: mayhempix
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January 15, 2010 11:22 AM
Dinner.
Posted by: w.austin.yun
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January 15, 2010 11:22 AM
The same Erich Meatleg of SGU fame?
Meatle-G!
Posted by: alysonmiers
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January 15, 2010 11:29 AM
Food porn. Awesome.
Posted by: 32bituser
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January 15, 2010 12:58 PM
That.. looks.. YUMMY!!!!
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 15, 2010 1:05 PM
I can guarantee 100% that the animals pictured were not suffering.
Posted by: Athena
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January 15, 2010 1:46 PM
Even more fun is the dancing squid on dailysquee.com. It's the second entry.
Posted by: amphiox
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January 15, 2010 1:54 PM
Certainly cephalopods are intelligent critters, easily ranking within the vertebrate range, but I do not think was can blithely say that they are more intelligent than your average mammal (cow), or average bird (chicken). Perhaps smarter than the tuna with greater confidence, but then again, do we really know how smart your average tuna is?
Posted by: jrandomoldman
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January 15, 2010 2:21 PM
Looks like a whole lot of "Tako Poki" in the making to me. ... Yum!
Posted by: rahne.everson
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January 15, 2010 8:10 PM
If only Georgia O'Keefe liked tentacle porn...
Posted by: maxamillion
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January 15, 2010 8:45 PM
Nah, you just need spend more time in your local supermarket.
Some recipes http://tinyurl.com/y9kgotj
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 16, 2010 1:21 PM
Interesting question. First, cattle are almost certainly stupider than most mammals (plus they're drunk all the time). Chickens are apparently not bad at sorting out social relationships, and may be slightly more intelligent than your average bird. Tuna? pretty much cruise-&-eat-in-a-big-school all day long; not much evolutionary pressure for intelligence there.
Octopuses, IIRC, have been documented to exhibit observational learning, something that is very difficult to show even in non-human primates. They can also solve problems of a sort that require roughly monkey- or crow-level intelligence.
Posted by: mitchkin5
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January 16, 2010 1:42 PM
"The same Erich Meatleg of SGU fame?
Meatle-G!"
Is this the same guy?
http://meatleg.com/
Found an illustration blog here:
http://meatleg.com/illustration/