Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #3

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More cephalopods are being celebrated everywhere. Send me more!

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One last compendium, I think, unless I find unusually large quantities of Cephalopod Awareness links in my mailbox tomorrow. A whole museum dedicated to octopus balls? The Japanese can be very strange, Tikistitch. How to eat a cephalopod, if you're a mosasaur. Nifty squid art. What? A…
Here's the first volley of cephalopod recognition posts I've received. Do send me more, and I'll put them up later. Do me a favor and put "Cephalopod Awareness" in your subject line so I can sort them out more easily. The blog that kicked this all off, Cephalopodcast, has a vintage octopus…
a, Schematic of Octopus bimaculoides anatomy, highlighting the tissues sampled for transcriptome analysis: viscera (heart, kidney and hepatopancreas), yellow; gonads (ova or testes), peach; retina, orange; optic lobe (OL), maroon; supraesophageal brain (Supra), bright pink; subesophageal brain (…
Today is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Jason at Cephalopodcast asks us to "embrace your inner octopus and let the world know what we think of our tentacled friends." At the moment, Craig is in the running for a spot on a documentary series about the deep-sea. He is one of five finalists on the casting…

Did anyone see the weird and questionable special on Animal Planet last night called "The Future's Wild"?

It featured huge walking land squid with intelligent arboreal octopi as the squid's favorite prey on an earth projected 200 million years into the future.

By dwarf zebu (not verified) on 08 Oct 2007 #permalink

In all the time I've been reading Pharyngula, lurking and commenting we've had a squid archive on our blog, but you've never come over. I feel spurned, I tell you, spurned!

Well, here's the welcome mat.

Granted there's only ten posts in there now, but there's 5 years' worth of squid posts waiting to be tagged since we shifted to Wordpress. I'll do it if I think they'll get read.

Hurray for Cephalopod Day!!

I love the octopus tattoo.

I am tempted to send a photo of the octopus I drew (with a regular pen not as a tattoo) on a friend's skin for her "Octopussy" costume last year, but the resolution from her camera is pretty poor. If only I'd taken some shots with my camera!

On this Canadian Thanksgiving, let's me thankful for our "head foot" friends. Like us, cephalopods are big-brained, smart, agile, and dextrous, but otherwise they are so *unlike* us that if they didn't exist, we might not be able to imagine them.

Its true, I am meat-swaddled. hahahaha.

By The_Stone (not verified) on 08 Oct 2007 #permalink

The overfishing is almost inevitable - they're predators, so there are fewer of them to begin with, and we're taking away a lot of their food sources as well.

dwarf zebu, I saw something like that a few years ago, maybe the footage has been recycled. I remember thinking that the producers couldn't seem to be able to imagine new critters so they had to go with the old ones. Were they literally swinging from the trees? That was kind of funny, actually. The morphology wouldn't change to fit the environment in 200 million years, they would just be able to somehow live on land. I can see that some descendant of a modern cephalopod species could someday be able deal with a land environment but it would be a totally different looking animal.