This is no fair. I left Seattle 30 years ago, and now they're celebrating Octopus Week? Maybe if they'd thought of it then, I wouldn't have moved to Oregon, and Utah, And Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.
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That's interesting that Pacific octopuses can open childproof medicine bottles. Such clever invertebrates!
News to me, and it's a bus ride away. Thanks for the tip, PZ!
Sam, here in the Northwest we have a raging octopus OxyContin epidemic.
This is one of the great things about the Northwest.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
A friend of mine has an out-of-town guest this weekend. They went to the aquarium yesterday and came back with this story:
Apparently as part of Octopus Week the aquarium is marking nearly every tank in the joint with a sign that says "Predator of octopus", "Prey of octopus", "Relative of octopus", or some combination thereof. As they were studying the wolf eel--apparently quite a robust specimen--they noted that it was listed as both predator and prey of octopus. Duly impressed, they walked around to the other side of the tank...
...where they saw, sharing the tank, a Pacific giant octopus.
It seems a bit unfair that they would celebrate Octopus Week by making them work. Shouldn't they give the octopi some cut flowers and the day off?
Judging by your migratory patterns, I'd say you're headed in the correct direction to participate in Octopus Week. Just a few hundred miles futher...
jbs
How do they acquire new specimens for the museum?
The article said the museum only keeps a giant Pacific octopus for six months to a year. I assume they keep restocking.
Darn it! I was just 1 block away from the Seattle Aquarium on Monday and I didn't know about this exhibit. Now I'm back in DC for another 3 weeks. Sometimes I miss all the fun. :-(
True or not, I'll honor myself by thinking it was my email that tipped you to this.
A friend of mine has an out-of-town guest this weekend. They went to the aquarium yesterday and came back with this story:
Apparently as part of Octopus Week the aquarium is marking nearly every tank in the joint with a sign that says "Predator of octopus", "Prey of octopus", "Relative of octopus", or some combination thereof. As they were studying the wolf eel--apparently quite a robust specimen--they noted that it was listed as both predator and prey of octopus. Duly impressed, they walked around to the other side of the tank...
...where they saw, sharing the tank, a Pacific giant octopus.