http://www.metafilter.com/tags/octopuses Posts tagged with 'octopuses' at MetaFilter. Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:06:36 -0800 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:06:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76372/cephalopod%2Dappreciation The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpME-jNSC2U">beautiful and amazing </a>caped crusader, <a href="http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=3124">Tremoctopus</a>. <a href="http://www.bogleech.com/bio-tenta.html">Amazing </a>Cephalopods, that can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD1GQJHcq0">moonwalk, run</a>, cleverly <a href="http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2007/5/3/030507_octopus.html">open</a> a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6mtZSzYeM0&feature=related">variety</a> of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldMsc84TTo&feature=related">jars</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc&feature=related">shapeshift.</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NQUqR_YpsA">Masters of illusion</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwAqhThd_EQ">Giant octopus</a> encounter. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDRCsJ2Dvs&feature=related">Shark vs. Octopus</a>. <em><a href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/video-tremoctopus-defense-mechanism/">The video explains </a>that when threatened, the 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.</em> Unusual size difference <a href="http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/site/publish/journals/nzjmfr/2002/061.aspx">between</a> female and <a href="http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/tremoctopus_thats_one_big_mamma_a_dream_for_the_macrophiliacs/">male</a>, who <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_octopus">tears off his tentacle and gives it to her</a> l <a href="http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Tremoctopus&contgroup=Argonautoid_families">Details</a> of the blanket octopus. Octopus <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Intelligence">intelligence</a>. <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-octopus-video-ap.html">Octopus sex</a> and <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/02/octopus-sex-mating.html">mating</a>. Octopuses <a href="http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml">walk backwards</a>. <a href="http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/03/02/dr-roger-hanlon-on-cuttlefish-and-camouflage/">Dr. Roger Hanlon on cuttlefish and camouflage</a> with that extraordinary <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_mkzYTCWk8&feature=related">disappearing octopus</a> video. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/tags/octopus">Previously</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76372 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:06:36 -0800 cephalopod octopus octopuses Tremoctopus nickyskye