Psychedelic Octopus

[shazball]

Sounds like global warming brought this guy outta hiding. Groovy!!

www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070225_antarctic_octopus_02.jpg&cap=Antarctic+octopus+(Paraledone+turqueti).+Credit%3A+E.+Jorgensen,+NOAA+2007

[augustwest]

Wow, I was expecting something more along the lines of a psychedelic toad, but that is pretty cool too. Maybe someone should try licking it just in case

[killface]

I couldnt read the article from there but pretty much all Octopus only live for a few years if that long.

[augustwest]

killface said:

I couldnt read the article from there but pretty much all Octopus only live for a few years if that long.

So licking it would make me a pedophile or something?

[bojangles22]

"and the first place winner goes to..........................HYPNOTOAD........all hail Hypnotoad"

[poopzilla33]

THATS SO COOL!!!!

ocotpus' are one of the only creatures in nature (proven by science, so there are prlly more) that have a "language" with grammatical structure

[spookymonster]

From Wikipedia:
The neurological autonomy of the arms means that the octopus has great difficulty learning about the detailed effects of its motions. The brain may issue a high-level command to the arms, but the nerve cords in the arms execute the details. There is no neurological path for the brain to receive feedback about just how its command was executed by the arms; the only way it knows just what motions were made is by observing the arms visually.

Wow... think about that the next time you're in an altered state..

[augustwest]

spookymonster said:

the only way it knows just what motions were made is by observing the arms visually.

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Wow... think about that the next time you're in an altered state.. [/quote]

Yeah, I've had that happen a few times

[indigo]

bojangles22 said:

"and the first place winner goes to..........................HYPNOTOAD........all hail Hypnotoad"

exalted for the futurama reference lol.