Julie with a B

Monday, March 28, 2005
 
Octopus sneaking away...
Camouflaged Octopuses "walk" on two tentacles
"If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two."
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I love this - I think octopuses are incredible anyway - they change color with different emotions, they show great ingenuity in getting things out of jars, and now they are sneaky too. I'm sure if they had eyebrows they would raise them at some of our antics as well.

wills4223 has an interesting take on them:
". . . 'by using two of their arms as legs. They use the other six arms to make themselves look like coconuts or algae. . .'
This reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the cows drop to all fours when humans come around, but resume standing on two legs otherwise. And I for one welcome our new mollusk overlords."

- posted by JulieB @ 8:35 AM
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