By pharyngula on December 22, 2006. Since it is Cephalopodmas, I think it's only fitting to throw in another Friday Cephalopod, the psychedelic Wonderpus. Wonderpus Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman. Tags cephalopods Organisms Log in to post comments More like this soon to be Wonderpus photogenicus orso they say Log in to post comments Wonderpus photogenicus LOL! Sounds like somebody grew up watching RoadRunner cartoons! Log in to post comments Now I get it; candy canes are designed after the tentacles of the wonderpus! So that's why people always give them out at Cephalopodmas! Log in to post comments Wonder if it tastes like peppermint? Log in to post comments The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg But maybe that is just me. Log in to post comments The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg But maybe that is just me. Log in to post comments Sorry about the double post above. Here is a short video of the Wunderpus in locomotion. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/index_files/wpus-001-01.mpg Log in to post comments Here's something for cephalopodmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg Log in to post comments The picture is great but the video of this wee(?) beastie moving around is just so cool! Have a happy cephalopodmas, y'all. Log in to post comments
Wonderpus photogenicus LOL! Sounds like somebody grew up watching RoadRunner cartoons! Log in to post comments
Now I get it; candy canes are designed after the tentacles of the wonderpus! So that's why people always give them out at Cephalopodmas! Log in to post comments
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg But maybe that is just me. Log in to post comments
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg But maybe that is just me. Log in to post comments
Sorry about the double post above. Here is a short video of the Wunderpus in locomotion. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/index_files/wpus-001-01.mpg Log in to post comments
Here's something for cephalopodmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg Log in to post comments
The picture is great but the video of this wee(?) beastie moving around is just so cool! Have a happy cephalopodmas, y'all. Log in to post comments
soon to be Wonderpus photogenicus or
so they say
LOL! Sounds like somebody grew up watching RoadRunner cartoons!
Now I get it; candy canes are designed after the tentacles of the wonderpus!
So that's why people always give them out at Cephalopodmas!
Wonder if it tastes like peppermint?
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg
But maybe that is just me.
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg
But maybe that is just me.
Sorry about the double post above. Here is a short video of the Wunderpus in locomotion.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/index_files/wpus-001-01.mpg
Here's something for cephalopodmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg
The picture is great but the video of this wee(?) beastie moving around is just so cool!
Have a happy cephalopodmas, y'all.