(Photo from a Japanese fish market, by Erich Meatleg)
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A basketful of pruriently poddy posies.
Mmmmmm, Meatlegs.
Yes and yes!
Cephaloporn.
Deflowered flowers?
I have to admit, though I've never paid much attention to cephalopods in the past, the pictures on Pharyngula are winning me over.
Shame these poor things are dead, but I doubt I'll look as pretty when I'm gone.
Well, flowers are reproductive bits, after all, so no real conflict there...
Doesn't that make you kind of sad, PZ? I prefer to see octopi alive and in water, myself. Poor little things.
Possibly? Flowers are after all nothing but flashy plant porn.
Less than three months until Nautileaster
c. none of the above.
That's meat.
Meat flowers?
Unnecessary suffering of one of the most amazing sentient non-human animals.
Eeewww gross! Angiospermae-Cephalopod snuff porn.
Oh, I forgot: Yay, Friday!
re: #12
To paraphrase a previous thread:
"Oh, the octopodity!"
(Though one should not necessarily jump to conclusions about unnecessary suffering. We don't know how humanely, or not humanely, they were killed)
Bananas?
Mmm... I must admit I've never actually eaten octopus. It's apparently really tasty...
Just more confirmation, however, that I seriously need to go to Japan. I wonder if my company will transfer me there eventually...
It´s better than squid and probably about on a par with cuttlefish.
Nothing is on a par with Cuttlefish.
I know this is childish, but from Erich Meatleg!
There's a difference?
Flowers are (just) vegetable porn.
I know I'm getting a little sentimental for an edible critter...but I feel bad for the average dinner octapus. Those guys are too intelligent to be eating. I prefer to stick to tuna, cows and chickens..
// although my hypocracy is revealed when I eat pork....
Dinner.
The same Erich Meatleg of SGU fame?
Meatle-G!
Food porn. Awesome.
That.. looks.. YUMMY!!!!
I can guarantee 100% that the animals pictured were not suffering.
Even more fun is the dancing squid on dailysquee.com. It's the second entry.
Certainly cephalopods are intelligent critters, easily ranking within the vertebrate range, but I do not think was can blithely say that they are more intelligent than your average mammal (cow), or average bird (chicken). Perhaps smarter than the tuna with greater confidence, but then again, do we really know how smart your average tuna is?
Looks like a whole lot of "Tako Poki" in the making to me. ... Yum!
If only Georgia O'Keefe liked tentacle porn...
Nah, you just need spend more time in your local supermarket.
Some recipes http://tinyurl.com/y9kgotj
Interesting question. First, cattle are almost certainly stupider than most mammals (plus they're drunk all the time). Chickens are apparently not bad at sorting out social relationships, and may be slightly more intelligent than your average bird. Tuna? pretty much cruise-&-eat-in-a-big-school all day long; not much evolutionary pressure for intelligence there.
Octopuses, IIRC, have been documented to exhibit observational learning, something that is very difficult to show even in non-human primates. They can also solve problems of a sort that require roughly monkey- or crow-level intelligence.
"The same Erich Meatleg of SGU fame?
Meatle-G!"
Is this the same guy?
http://meatleg.com/
Found an illustration blog here:
http://meatleg.com/illustration/