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Friday Cephalopod: The mammal is in his grasp, next he's going to crush and eat it
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: July 30, 2010 9:20 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Zeno
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July 30, 2010 9:25 AM
It's Jonah Goldberg versus sanity and reason! (Or is it Casey Luskin?)
No, neither. They're not that cute.
Posted by: Budbear
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July 30, 2010 9:28 AM
Now, that's adorable. You'd want to play with the little feller, but would be afraid to squish his little self.
Posted by: te24hours
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July 30, 2010 9:28 AM
It's this sort of thing that keeps me coming back here. I find the combative attitude tiresome sometimes, but dear Science! You are funny, Dr. Myers.
Posted by: KKBundy
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July 30, 2010 9:31 AM
A little to the right... A little more... Wait for it... Wait... Got him. Dinner for a billion.
Who needs loaves and fishes. Teach a cephalopod to fish he will eat for a lifetime. Teach him to nab a fisherman and he eats for eternity!
Long live our tiny masters!
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Posted by: InfraredEyes
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July 30, 2010 9:33 AM
Huge eyes for such a little squirt.
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/90YiMPoR0s6DJYBAw4ryeePG4vqJUxYZ#3421a
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July 30, 2010 9:34 AM
"My, what big eyes you have, Grandma!"
"The better to see you with, my darling."
PZ, why do cephalopods have such big eyes?
~wjs
Posted by: Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe
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July 30, 2010 9:35 AM
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Phodopus
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July 30, 2010 9:35 AM
Hola Cthulito! isn't he fthagny!
Posted by: fauxrs
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July 30, 2010 9:36 AM
here we see a cephalopod, locked in a life or death struggle with a human being, he leaps and burys his jaws into the unsuspecting human.
A battle of this sort can take up to 15 years.
Posted by: jonathan.raney21
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July 30, 2010 9:50 AM
It's so tiny and awesome. I love cephalopods so much I got a half sleeve tattoo of one on my left arm. I havn't named him yet which is sad. Any suggestions?
Posted by: MAJeff, OM
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July 30, 2010 9:53 AM
Isn't that on of those toys you throw against a wall and watch as it "crawls" down?
Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkMeAAyLWcCyk_BQXcHl2OxQtgREvf43ts
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July 30, 2010 10:25 AM
OMFSM!!! I've been immobilized by its cuteness!
Posted by: daveau
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July 30, 2010 10:26 AM
Oh sure. Adorable now. Just like those lion cubs that you can play with. But really they are just sussing you up as a meal in a few years when they get big enough to take you. Yay, Friday!
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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July 30, 2010 10:29 AM
"The better to see
youwith,my darlingdumbass."Posted by: Savior Breath
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July 30, 2010 10:33 AM
We castigate the credulous for seeing the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, yet our noble leader now reports this to be the image of a cephalopod. It's just a booger, PZ.
Posted by: Janine, The Little Top Of Venom, OM
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July 30, 2010 10:37 AM
A sure sign that I watched too many cartoons when I was young. My first thought was of Foghorn Leghorn and the chicken hawk.
Posted by: Insightful Ape
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July 30, 2010 10:39 AM
The eyes remind me of Jonathan Sarfati and his "being
qualified" to decide they are inferior to vertebrate eyes, based on his degree in spectrometry.
Posted by: Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
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July 30, 2010 10:42 AM
Aww... it's so cute.
Of course the cuteness is just a way it gets unsuspecting prey - think about it. If it was disgusting, no one would want to touch it, but look - it's cute! OMG IT'S EATING ME!!!
Posted by: James F
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July 30, 2010 10:43 AM
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!
Posted by: Puddock
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July 30, 2010 10:47 AM
Very very cute, and it led me to the possibly even cuter "Lemur being tickled" on Daily Squee, so thank you!
Posted by: inkhat
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July 30, 2010 11:03 AM
#10
Name it Ishmael! Or Pericles! Shakespeare names are always awesome. Pericles is one of his lesser known plays. It's full of a crazy number of shipwrecks. Also incest...and fire falling from the sky...and knight and tournaments and iambic pentameter!
Posted by: sphex
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July 30, 2010 11:07 AM
I'm probably showing my ignorance here, but...
Aren't there only seven tentacles? Isn't the more common number 8?
Posted by: sphex
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July 30, 2010 11:09 AM
Oh, and I forgot to say: "cuuuuute!!!!"
Posted by: Moosey
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July 30, 2010 11:32 AM
Obviously it is young and has an un-decended tentacle.
Posted by: Sal Bro
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July 30, 2010 11:38 AM
I just squeed myself.
Posted by: Ring Tailed Lemurian
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July 30, 2010 11:43 AM
Puddock #20
Where's the "Lemur being tickled"? Went to Daily Squee and couldn't find it, but it lead me to The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu, which was new to me.
Posted by: lindsayturtle
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July 30, 2010 11:59 AM
Oh my GOD! So CUTE! Imagine you had one.... you'd be the talk of the town. "Did you see Lindsay walking her baby octopus yesterday? He's so well behaved!"
Posted by: Moggie
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July 30, 2010 12:00 PM
It's positively wuvcraftian!
Posted by: Dhorvath, OM
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July 30, 2010 12:02 PM
I want one.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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July 30, 2010 12:03 PM
You killed my father!
I slime your finger.
Ha!
Glen Davidson
Posted by: CanadianChick
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July 30, 2010 12:04 PM
Squee!!! So cute!!
Posted by: Q.E.D
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July 30, 2010 12:19 PM
I am utterly unmoved by cuteness. I don't see why a very small caphalopod is any more interesting than a larger one. This mass outpouring of childish glee is just infantile and
[can't keep up the pretense, breaks down utterly]
It's sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuute.
Posted by: Bernard Bumner
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July 30, 2010 12:25 PM
I wonder what it tastes like?
(Not the finger. I know what fingers taste like. Cheese and Onion. Fingers taste like Cheese and Onion.)
Posted by: Rutee, Shrieking Harpy of Dooooom
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July 30, 2010 12:33 PM
Alright, this has been the first friday cephalopod I've actually liked. It's so cute!
Posted by: Dae
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July 30, 2010 12:55 PM
I squeed. That is adorable. BABY CTHULHU IS CLAIMING HIS FIRST VICTIM!
Posted by: Athena
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July 30, 2010 1:12 PM
He's got freckles! Or maybe those are spots of pepper? Anyway...
WANT!
Posted by: heatherly
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July 30, 2010 1:28 PM
Oh, he's adorable!
Posted by: otrame
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July 30, 2010 1:39 PM
The little darlin.
I suppose it's just that we are reacting to the fact that he has some features that appear neotonous to our mammalian eyes. Short (i.e. no) nose and big obvious eyes and...
to hell with it. That is just cute.
I wish they lived longer.
You know I had to swear off eating octopi a while back. The more I know about them the more it felt like I was eating a dog or a dolphin. Can't do it.
Posted by: Caine, ghetto féministe
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July 30, 2010 2:32 PM
Eeeeeeeeeeee, *cute overload* Aaaaaaaaw.
Posted by: cicely (Inadvertent Phytocidal Maniac)
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July 30, 2010 2:40 PM
Reminds me of an old Far Side cartoon; two spiders have set up a web at the bottom of a playground slide. One of the spiders says something like, "If we can pull this off, we'll eat like kings!".
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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July 30, 2010 2:55 PM
Chtulitos! It's what's for breakfast.Srsly, this looks like something that'd be a nice filler in a soup.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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July 30, 2010 2:59 PM
Unpossible!Posted by: jeffery.g.davis
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July 30, 2010 3:03 PM
You have to admire the confidence, reminds me a little bit of my old ferret who would (legitimately, not playing) attack my 120 lb Newfoundland. The poor guy would just lay there and look at me with this "it's doing it again" look on his face.
Posted by: BrianX
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July 30, 2010 3:11 PM
...must find butter and lemon...
/runs for the heretic escape hatch
Posted by: jcmartz.myopenid.com
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July 30, 2010 3:44 PM
Spotty!
Posted by: DominEditrix
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July 30, 2010 4:56 PM
Aaaaaaaaw - teh cuteness, it bites!
Posted by: Joffan
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July 30, 2010 6:14 PM
sphex, I reckon that there's a pile of three tentacles on the left there, not just two. Making eight in all, hoorah!
Posted by: triplesec
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July 30, 2010 6:44 PM
Say "uncle" biped!
Posted by: Yunomi
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July 30, 2010 6:47 PM
Cuuuute.....SUPER cute!
Posted by: MichelleZB
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July 31, 2010 9:54 AM
That's pretty cute.
Posted by: Paul Burnett
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July 31, 2010 11:55 AM
Cute...almost as terminally cute as http://sciencenotes.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/baby-pygmy-marmoset-on-finger/
Posted by: Greg Laden
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August 1, 2010 5:19 PM
That's gonna leave a mark.
Posted by: monado
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August 3, 2010 12:09 AM
That *is* adorable. I wish they lived longer, too.
Thanks for linking, Paul!
I've just spent several days driving through the countryside mashing flying insects with an automobile, shooing butterflies off the road, and trying to make sure that ants and bumblebees stayed in their own territories and did not hitch any rides to strange lands.