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- goalieguy314, on 02/28/2009, -10/+210Clever girl..
- copypastry, on 02/28/2009, -2/+153In one instance, an octopus given a slightly spoiled shrimp stuffed it down the drain while maintaining eye contact with its keeper, Linden said.
This is awesome. - kingofinternet, on 02/28/2009, -6/+113octopuses are actually remarkably intelligent for invertebrates.
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wonder what she was inking - palehorse864, on 02/28/2009, -1/+60Brilliant escape plan. Octopuses have escaped to adjacent tanks by crawlign across open floor, but to truly make a survivable escape, they must terraform the rest of the office to make it liveable for themseleves. (aquaform?)
- kingofinternet, on 02/28/2009, -0/+48octopus
1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Gk. oktopous "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot." Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us is the L. noun ending that takes -i in plural. - Virgule, on 02/28/2009, -0/+41release....... me.........
- JazzSax, on 02/28/2009, -6/+44"The female California two-spotted octopus swam to the top of her tank, disassembled a valve with her powerful arm, and released at least 200 gallons (757 liters) of seawater into nearby exhibits and offices."
Maybe she was pissed because she was cooped up in a cage...? - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+30WTF? Thats just creepy as hell.
I think I might stay away from the octopus exhibit next time I'm at SeaWorld. - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+29FTA:
"For example, the animals are extremely flexible, able to fit their boneless bodies through tiny cracks ... (Watch a video of an octopus squeezing through a one-inch hole.)"
Can I get a rule 34 on that? - RobotBuddha, on 02/28/2009, -0/+26They're remarkably intelligent for any form of life. For an invertebrate, they're almost miraculously so.
- Grahamcracker, on 02/28/2009, -0/+25What they say about other octopus owners having their own stories is right on the money. My zoology TA told a story about an octopus that used to be kept across the hall in another lab. Crabs were disappearing from the tanks, and no one knew why. One night somebody was staying late and happened upon the octupus in this crab tank. Apparently it would move the cover on it's tank just enough to squeeze out, get under the door crack, go across the hall, gorge itself, then get back in it's own tank and replace the cover. Amazing little animals.
- Nickolassc, on 02/28/2009, -0/+24Last time I provided the link people wanted to quote "kill me with fire"
but trust me, octopus girl is out there. - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+23Or the janitor framed the octopus.
- cocainxbluez, on 02/28/2009, -1/+21Wow, I had no idea they only lived a year. They sure grow fast.
- lunachique, on 02/28/2009, -5/+24Octopi are extremely intelligent. You'd think they'd know enough to put her in an environment that would prevent her from doing something like this.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+20I'm so torn. It's an awesome article from a great source. But there's ***** "LOL" in the summary title. Digg or bury...
- RoboRay, on 02/28/2009, -4/+23A typical brick is as smart as my dog.
- mamboboy, on 02/28/2009, -1/+20Or Paris Hilton.
- Devrdander, on 02/28/2009, -2/+21http://xkcd.com/520/
- didgital, on 02/28/2009, -0/+18Did you see the size of her tank? I think she flooded the aquarium to bring our attention to her crappy fishbowl. Let's rescue her!
- brstilson, on 02/28/2009, -1/+19They are about as intelligent as a 4-year-old human, actually. Which is pretty remarkable.
- donquixotex, on 02/28/2009, -0/+18Is that glass bulletproof?!
- Ojoo, on 02/28/2009, -1/+18dear god if u value the food you ate in the last couple hours.. don't watch that vid ^^
- geoboy, on 02/28/2009, -0/+17Amazing! National Geographic somehow managed to capture one of the most annoying narrators ever!
- atonalpanic, on 02/28/2009, -0/+17That's so punny.
- MacEnvy, on 02/28/2009, -0/+17@kingofinternet
You win. It's octopodes. - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+17Hey whaddayaknow, she's at www.octopusgirl.com !
- PurpleDee, on 02/28/2009, -0/+15They are also awesome ninja's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP8msIgMYE - wunksta, on 02/28/2009, -0/+15PEACE.... NO PEACE...
- JoeRW, on 02/28/2009, -0/+15They certainly aint spineless either! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8
- brotherfranciz, on 02/28/2009, -0/+14"Many octopuses show behavior that suggests curiosity, consciousness, and even a sense of humor..."
Or maybe it's just that she got bored? - wracker92, on 02/28/2009, -3/+17When I read about what that octopus did I couldn't help but think of that evil money pointing at Chris Griffen from Family Guy.
DO NOT TEST THE OCTOPUS. - twiztidsinz, on 02/28/2009, -1/+15***** comments =/= evidence of Bury Brigade
- Deveak, on 02/28/2009, -5/+19Shoot her! shoot her!
- soulonfire928, on 02/28/2009, -0/+13For the love of god, I never learn.
- walshgopher, on 02/28/2009, -0/+13The life span varies from species to species. The northern pacific giant octopus for example lives 3-5 years in the wild. To make up for its short life span and the harsh environment they live in a female lays about 100 000 eggs when she mates. When they hatch they are the size of a grain of rice, only a few will make it to adulthood but when they do they could weigh 50kgs+.
- dazparkour, on 02/28/2009, -0/+13Kill it with fire.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+12Did you miss the memo? It's octopodes.
- staffell, on 02/28/2009, -1/+13OOHHH GOOD FOR YOU
- hfactor, on 02/28/2009, -0/+11It would be if octopus were Latin.
Wikipedia:
There are three forms of the plural of octopus; namely, octopuses, octopi, and octopodes. Currently, octopuses is the most common form in the UK as well as the US; octopodes is rare, and octopi is often objectionable.[25]
The Oxford English Dictionary (2004 update[26]) lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order); it labels octopodes "rare", and notes that octopi derives from the mistaken assumption that octΕpΕ«s is a second declension Latin noun, which it is not. Rather, it is (Latinized) Greek, from oktαΉpous (α½ΞΊΟΟΟΞΏΟ Ο), gender masculine, whose plural is oktαΉpodes (α½ΞΊΟΟΟοδΡΟ). If the word were native to Latin, it would be octΕpΔs ('eight-foot') and the plural octΕpedes, analogous to centipedes and mΔ«llipedes, as the plural form of pΔs ('foot') is pedes. In modern Greek, it is called khtapΓ³di (ΟΟΞ±ΟΟδι), gender neuter, with plural form khtapΓ³dia (ΟΟΞ±ΟΟδια).
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary[27] and the Compact Oxford Dictionary[28] list only octopuses, although the latter notes that octopodes is "still occasionally used"; the British National Corpus has 29 instances of octopuses, 11 of octopi and 4 of octopodes. Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists octopuses and octopi, in that order; Webster's New World College Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order).
Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses," and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -0/+11LEARN TO REPLY.
- jackal42, on 02/28/2009, -0/+10Wht in the carp did i just sea?
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+11That's all I need to know. Thank you, I'll take it from here.
- SaveDogsOnline, on 02/28/2009, -1/+10Yes.
- one1plus1one, on 02/28/2009, -0/+9Some believe that the octopus is the closest example of "alien intelligence" we have on Earth.
Most of the other so called smart animals are mammals, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, dolphins, etc... (And of course dogs and cats, but especially cats.)
Because the "smartest" animals all seem to be mammals, this leads to the common pick-up line used by males throughout the animal kingdom: "Hey baby, you and me ain't nothin' but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel..."
But I digress. So yes, as I was saying, all these mammals are relatively closely related to each other, and they evolved to have very similar mammal-like brain structure and neural networks.
But the Octopus is very different. It evolved it's intelligence within an "alien environment" under water. (Dolphins also evolved their intelligence partly underwater, but dolphins descend from land animals that already had a head start in developing a land-based intelligent brain.)
And so, the Octopus' intelligence evolved entirely an environment that is very different from land.
The Octopus also did not descend from mammals, making the evolution of the wiring and neural network patterns in it's brain very different from ours.
But despite it evolving a very different brain, it still behaves remarkably similar in many ways to mammals.
Many divers report that their interactions with the Octopus reminds them of interactions with tamed house-cats.
This hints that if there is intelligent alien-life on other planets, it's possible that it might behave in familiar ways to us, despite it's brain structure being very different. - jshpro2, on 02/28/2009, -0/+9Is it that hard to believe? In nature if an octopus walked across some shore to get to a tide pool he'd get more nourishment and better chance to reproduce, if the other octopus can mess up the plumbing and flood the building why couldn't one push a lid on his tank that wasn't secured?
- localzuk, on 02/28/2009, -0/+9Where the hell have you been getting your octopus from if it has ribs?!
- Ogopogo, on 02/28/2009, -1/+8.. nice try, but I'd need to see the time-lapse video to believe that one..
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