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.
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Since Friday's cephalopod was a repeat (sorry, it's such a lovely picture that it caught my eye again), here's another to compensate.
Sepia pharaonis
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
It's still Friday, isn't it? Some of you have noticed there was some screw-up in post scheduling, which has been fixed now…and here at last is the Friday Cephalopod.
Sepia sp.
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Grrlscientist asked me for a blue cephalopod the other day, and what do we all think of when blue cephalopods come up? Blue ringed octopuses, of course. So lovely, and so deadly.
Hapalochlaena
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Sepioteuthis sepioidea
Since I saw Iron Man last night (short review: AWESOME!!!), I thought I'd try to find a cephalopod with a similar red and gold color scheme…and didn't get very close. But this one does have the sleek look of a rocket-propelled machine, so it will have to do.
Figure from…
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.