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| Friday, August 29th, 2008 | 6:32 pm
[ericastratton]
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Every Octopus Love Story Needs a Good Car Chase Continuing my tradition of posting things about octopuses that have nothing to to with real life octopuses...
Oktapodi, via shape + color (a darn good place for finding the newest artsy videos, if I do say so myself.) | 3:02 pm
[mactavish]
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Giant slug,
Namaqualand,
South Africa | | Friday, July 18th, 2008 | 3:05 pm
[ericastratton]
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Friday Tentacle: Freakishly Lovely  An octopus with 96 tentacles has a strange and mutant charm. Go see it. | | Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | 12:16 am
[fairytailocom]
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| | Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | 9:58 pm
[raingirl3179]
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A Song for Mollusk-lovers!
I came upon that, and rather enjoyed the lyrics and the vid of the guy's artwork in progress. The song's kind of catchy. Enjoy! | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 7:06 pm
[ericastratton]
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Wendsday Tentacle: The Elder Gods are Just Big Misunderstood Mollusks That Need Some Lovin'  "Somewhere in France, inside a building with the words “Ancienne Maison Pain” emblazoned on its facade, a portal has opened..."P.S. ECTOPLASMOSIS! doesn't have a weekly tentacle feature, but they seem to love the eight-armed denizens of the deep as much as I do. I got the Mimic Octopus film from them too, and forgot to credit. *blushes* | | Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | 5:16 pm
[feyandstrange]
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Toys! In an effort to determine if octopi have handed-ness, octopuses across Europe are getting toys to play with, including Rubik's Cube. Visitors will be asked to note which arms the octopus is using when they visit. Here's hoping the octopus solves it. (If anybody finds a webcam view of this, please post.) | | Sunday, June 29th, 2008 | 11:23 pm
[ericastratton]
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Sunday Tentacle: Kalamari Wrestler He seemed to have it all: the title of World's Greatest Wrestler, a hot human girlfriend, and the admiration of millions. Then an angry crustacean challenged him to the battle that would change everything... *Rocky theme music plays.*This was another great find from And I Am Not Lying. But just in case you were thinking this was some elaborate prank, here is an actual scene from the movie that I discovered myself: | | Saturday, June 28th, 2008 | 11:02 am
[ericastratton]
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Saturday Tentacle: Bolero and the Octopus  "It takes some time, but curiosity wins out, and you just have to touch his hand. Everyone does. Everyone and everything." | | Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | 8:08 pm
[ericastratton]
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Wendsday Tentacle: Mimic Octopus
Who doesn't love the mimic octopus? A flounder, hermit crab, snake and lion fish all in one. | | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | 2:14 pm
[melissadowell]
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| | Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | 9:49 am
[ericastratton]
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| | Saturday, June 7th, 2008 | 1:25 pm
[tabbyfoo]
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Swiped from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) wtf_nature The Tremoctopus Tremoctopus, the blanket octopusThe blanket octopuses, four species of octopus in the Tremoctopus genus, are found in the waters of Australia's Northern Coast. The male blanket octopus spends his existence drifting along waiting to meet with a female. If the male meets a female, he fills one of his tentacles with sperm and tears it from his body. He gives this sperm-filled tentacle to the female which she then uses to fertilize her eggs. Afterwards, the female leaves the male who floats away and dies. These species have an extreme degree of sexual dimorphism. According to the Melbourne Museum, "there's no other non-microscopic critter that has such a significant size difference between the male and female." Measuring only 2.4 cm long, the male blanket octopus is incongruously smaller than the female who can grow to over 2 m. This means that the female can be 100 times larger than her mate, and up to 40,000 times heavier. The male can afford to be small, since his chance of mating with a female and passing on genes does not depend on size, though the female's size is necessary to pass on as many healthy offspring as possible. The male's small size in fact allows him to reach sexual maturity faster, raising the chances that when a female stumbles upon him, he is ready to copulate. An unusual defense mechanism in the species has evolved: blanket octopuses are immune to the poisonous Portuguese man o' war, whose tentacles the female rips off and uses later for defensive purposes.  Unlike most octopuses that squirt thick clouds of black ink to confuse their predators, the blanket octopus unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The webbing breaks apart rather easily when attacked — much like a lizard’s tail — and it gets wrapped around the predator’s face, giving the octopus a chance to flee. | | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | 10:18 pm
[ithryn]
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Molluskirt An LJ friend sent a bunch of hand-me-down maternity clothes to my pregnant wife, and this awesome skirt was in the box:   ( Read more... )It's from a company called Rockstar Moms, but even though the original owner purchased it very recently, my wife said it doesn't appear to be on their site. | | Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | 8:13 pm
[mactavish]
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| | Sunday, May 25th, 2008 | 7:13 pm
[punctum_punctum]
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to speak in 4chanese, newfag here My humble contribution:  | | Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | 10:29 pm
[mactavish]
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| | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | 12:55 pm
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[squidflakes]
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But... but.. but.. those are octopuses! Found today in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stereotypist | | Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | 8:32 am
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