I know the Pacific ones get big, but how close is the diver? Is that a question of perspective, or is it really a 3 or 4 beastie (mantle + 1 tentacle)?
Hey, PZ! If Cephalopodmas is the solstice (whether for cultish reasons or more rational ones), then when is its year zero and is the counting system 8 or 10? These questions need to be answered so that people can celebrate the "Big'un" in anniversary terms.
Great picture. Can I be a total German grammar nerd and point out that your caption should be "ein Pazifischer Riesenoktopus"? As with many things in life, context is crucial.
Well BabelFish wasn't much help in determining the diver's sex. I got:
Courageously: One of the two biologists dares itself completely near to a Pacific Riesenoktopus near (4.50 meters; Queen Charlotte sound, Vancouver Iceland, British Columbia, Canada)
'Riesen' by itself translated as 'giant'. Divers here (Georgia Strait) have often tamed them to take food. Myself, I'd worry about the possibility that 'all gone' might not be easily communicated. That can be the case with bears, for example.
Courageously: One of the two biologists dares itself completely near
That should be "Courageous: One of the two biologists ventures quite near", and that second "near" from BabelFish should go. "Riesenoktopus" does indeed mean giant octopus.
More cross-species dating?
I know the Pacific ones get big, but how close is the diver? Is that a question of perspective, or is it really a 3 or 4 beastie (mantle + 1 tentacle)?
Gay Tentacle Porn? Looks like the diver's getting, um, "cephalo"...
OMG, he is totally having oral sex with that thing.
...not that I can blame him. She's awfully cute.
OMG, he is totally having oral sex with that thing.
...not that I can blame him. She's awfully cute.
Now I'm jealous. I want a cephalo-hug too.
Looks like that cephalopod is carrying home the groceries.
These novelty condoms have gone too far.
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It's a 4.5 meter 'pussy. Besides, you can clearly see that at least one tentacle goes *behind* the diver.
I don't anthropomorphize often but (s)he looks grumpy. After reading the previous comments I hate to wonder why! :^O
The diver is a "he"? How can any of you be so certain about the sex of the diver, not that it really matters ;-)
` Must... get... visions... of 'Octopussy' out of my head!
Hey, PZ! If Cephalopodmas is the solstice (whether for cultish reasons or more rational ones), then when is its year zero and is the counting system 8 or 10? These questions need to be answered so that people can celebrate the "Big'un" in anniversary terms.
wow i hope that octo didnt get PO'd at that diver ....those beaks look like they take a good sized chunk
Great picture. Can I be a total German grammar nerd and point out that your caption should be "ein Pazifischer Riesenoktopus"? As with many things in life, context is crucial.
Well BabelFish wasn't much help in determining the diver's sex. I got:
Courageously: One of the two biologists dares itself completely near to a Pacific Riesenoktopus near (4.50 meters; Queen Charlotte sound, Vancouver Iceland, British Columbia, Canada)
'Riesen' by itself translated as 'giant'. Divers here (Georgia Strait) have often tamed them to take food. Myself, I'd worry about the possibility that 'all gone' might not be easily communicated. That can be the case with bears, for example.
That should be "Courageous: One of the two biologists ventures quite near", and that second "near" from BabelFish should go. "Riesenoktopus" does indeed mean giant octopus.
Also, to be nerdily provincial, it's Hecate Strait, not Georgia Strait, that far North.