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Deeep in the gulf of Mexico.....................

2009-02-26T02:55:22Z

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html?source=rss

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Acadamy of Science? SF

2008-12-11T16:43:37Z

Anyone see the new octopus? I am assuming the guy is around 10' from tentacle tip to opposite side. The light is low so he was not so easy to to get a good read on.

But I will be back, oh yes.

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Oktapodi

2008-09-16T03:39:13Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaM9mrnOMJo

love all-ways,
mem

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Monster Hunt on TV finds actual monster

2008-04-14T10:40:41Z

Off Cabo, marine scientists tagged a big Humboldt recently, and sent it down to the depths with a movie camera. While it was fascinating to see other humboldts checking out the camera(feeling it with tentacles, nipping at it with beaks)-the camera caught sight of a monster at 1000 feet. After taking the film to experts(unassociated with the film) the beast in the background was measured, because the glow of its eye was supposedly(several meters) from the tentacles, which were over a foot around. The math then done put this "thing" at over 100 feet long.
An archituthus was feeding on the smaller squid. So between that and the Japanese off the Bonins a year ago, we're getting the first real pics (And movies)of the giant squid ALIVE.

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They're obsessively secretive, solitary and pretty spooky

2008-04-03T16:49:41Z

If you watch them, they watch you back. It's hard to study them.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/03/31_octo.shtml
<peek-a-boo!>

love all-ways,
mem

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What do you do?

2007-08-13T17:01:05Z

Marine biology was my first true love, but I didn't pursue it academically or professionally because I got sidetracked by an infatuation with languages and ended up majoring in Russian. Now, four years after receiving that degree, I've come to my senses and am back in school, taking various math and science classes that are required for admission into the Ocean Science/Marine Science grad school programs that I have my eye on.

I'm interested in hearing about the education and career paths of any members of the tribe who are lucky enough to receive a paycheck for working with cephalopods...or of anyone who's tried to do so. Any words of advice or warning for someone with lofty aspirations? (I haven't narrowed my aspirations down enough to know exactly what I'm trying to do, but I'm sure that when I figure it out, they'll be lofty.)

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Octosquid

2007-07-30T17:25:06Z

Scientists all agog at 'octosquid'

Friday, June 29, 2007 11:35 AM HST

NELHA pumps up the creature from 3,000 feet

by Bobby Command
Stephens Media
As denizens of the deep go, it isn't very intimidating.

But local scientists are nevertheless fascinated with the tentacled creature that was sucked up to the surface Tuesday by the 55-inch deep sea pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.

"It's kind of an 'octosquid,'" said Jan War, operations manager at NELHA at Keahole Point. "It's got the body of a squid but the eight tentacles of an octopus."

The foot-long "octosquid" was rescued alive from a filter at the end of the pipeline, which each minutes brings up to 5,000 gallons of 39-degree Fahrenheit sea water from a depth of 3,000 feet.

Along with the brownish-red octosquid, which does not have the long club tentacles normally seen on the type of mollusks known as cephalopods, NELHA officials also on Tuesday extracted three grayish-black rat-tail fish and four satellite jellyfish.

While the smallest of the rat-tail fish was still alive -- until the octosquid made a meal of it -- the other creatures were dead. War said the fish that come up the NELHA pipeline quickly die or are already dead because the change in atmospheric pressure expands and eventually ruptures a fish's swim bladders.

But invertebrates -- animals with no backbones -- are seemingly unaffected by the pressure change. The light may have bothered the octosquid, though, since it is pitch black at the 3,000-foot depth. War said the exceptionally clear waters off Keahole Point allow light from the sun to penetrate to about 500 and 600 feet.

War, who fed the octosquid shrimp for breakfast Wednesdaymorning, said everyone was excited because it was still alive. "And we're also excited because we may have found a new species."

University of Hawaii scientists are also interested in the octosquid.

"It's a gorgeous animal," said Christopher D. Kelley, program biologist for the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. "I want to say I've seen one, but I need to pass this one on to an expert for more examination."

To get down 3,000 feet, you have to go about a mile and a half off Keahole Point. War, who has inspected the pipelines intakes in a submersible owned by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, said the bottom is mostly rubble and sediment.

"The slope is a lot like Hualalai at 30 percent," War said. "There's a fair share of life down there -- mostly things suspended. But you also see things swimming around."

Kelley said Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory has a database of everything it has videotaped since it began the deep-sea dives in the 1980s, but there is so much that has yet to be discovered at those depths.

"We have one starfish-like creature that we can't even get the phylum (a primary division in the animal kingdom)," he said. "We've just labeled it 'animal.'"

War said there's a 40-inch pipeline, which brings water up from the 2,000-foot depth, that seems to produce different types of sea creatures. "You don't get these jellys in the 2,000-foot pipeline," he said. "I don't know if that means they stay deeper, or they just happened to be migrating through that area when they were caught."

Eventually, NELHA would like to put some of the benthic creatures out for display, but it takes an 8-ton crane to pull the filter out of the pump shaft, so cleaning is a major operation. "We'd like to find some way to do it more often," he said. "We pulled the skeleton of a fish out of there once, and we'd like to have seen what that was."

Kelley, who said he is also interested in the satellite jellyfish, said he's willing to take any of the animals that NELHA can't use or display.

"I hope they keep calling us when they get them," he said. "Needless to say, trips by humans to that depth are rare, so we're very interested in anything they come up with."
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2007/06/29/local_news/local02.txt

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The Inconsolable Octopus

2007-05-25T05:07:00Z

http://www.deannamolinaro.com/Stuff_That_I_Made/Books/Oct/Oct_1w.html

enjoy!

love all-ways,
mem

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Photos

2007-05-21T05:06:22Z

So...
what is the best cephalopod photo you have seen?

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Who here dreams they are a squid like or otherly tentacled creature ?

2007-05-20T05:33:20Z

Who here dreams they are a squid like or otherly tentacled creature at night, with a greater frequency than they dream that they are hominid?

It's a serious question. Anyone?

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Humboldt Squid, the fiercest of all the cephalopods

2007-05-19T04:50:10Z

http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/issues/Issue.03-10-2005/cover/Article.cover_story

http://diver.net/seahunt/fend/f_scottc.htm

http://squid.us/tags/humboldt-squid/
(note the *cute* cartoon at the bottom!)

http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/Dosidicusgigas.php

love all-ways,
mem

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I wish I was making this up

2007-05-10T07:47:23Z

http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=493

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seeding the ocean

2007-04-10T16:48:48Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rFoD1oE6U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople%2Etribe%2Enet%2F5a6730ec%2Dbbe1%2D4f88%2Da7c4%2D059f99e6a719

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Seattle aquarium relocates an octopus with sharks and gets a shock at what is disappearing

2007-03-28T21:59:48Z

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=612_1174960865

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Nuke it

2007-03-27T17:58:17Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6478801.stm

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Planet Earth

2007-03-26T21:50:14Z

Who saw the show last night? Vampire squid piece was incredible. I almost exploded. Serious.

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Krakken caught by Kiwi's!!!

2007-02-22T21:11:09Z

Okay, it was just a baby krakken, but still...it's the largest intact male colossal squid ever caught:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6385071.stm

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Tentacular bioluminescence

2007-02-14T23:42:03Z

squids that flash a bright light at their prey while approaching them at 8ft per second.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6357005.stm
[watch the short video linked in near the top of the article]

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Favorite Cephalopod?

2007-02-03T04:21:58Z

When I was in sixth grade I had an awesome science teacher who exposed my class to some very interesting documentaries - the first time I ever saw an octopus was in one of these classroom movies. Wow! They are beautiful, fluid, chameleons, intelligent, strange creatures... love the way they move through space, interact with their environment...

Has anyone ever seen an octupus while snorkeling or diving? Had one as a "pet"? Studied them for scientific research?

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cephalopod houdini

2006-12-12T21:32:27Z

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4007016107763801953&q=octopus

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60 gallon aquarium ...Large enough for an O vulgaris?

2006-11-21T22:22:03Z

Just curious if anyone anyone had any experiences/opinions thanks !!!

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octopuses.. no octopi, no wait..

2006-10-16T16:29:22Z

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/octopuses

According to here, you can actually use either.

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Cephalopod Intelligence?

2006-10-13T23:29:11Z

How intelligent are cephalopods? How would you rank the best-known species compared with other well-known animals? Can anyone use their knowledge and intuition to make a list? Is Sepia officinalis (Cuttlefish) really the smartest of all?

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another proud moment

2006-08-30T20:44:47Z

My littleistpurchased this at the Monteray Bay Aquarium. She was very proud to have found it.

http://cephalopods.tribe.net/photos/09024776-5abe-4459-82c8-9d3a6479cdbe

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Tako the octopus

2006-08-19T00:16:05Z

Cute little flash cartoon about an accident prone octopus chef.

www.8legged.com

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Is Everyone Else Getting These?

2006-08-18T19:37:54Z

So, there are advertisments on my tribe that say things like:

Fresh Free Octopus
(Cleaned, Chilled, etc.)

and

Gourmet Seafood

Does anyone else see something really wrong with this?

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Did anyone see..

2006-08-12T13:09:28Z

... the PBS special about the guy who took the first pictures of giant squids?

Took him two years and maybe broken (and stolen) cameras. The show was interesting though

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eating xephalopods?

2006-06-30T05:09:04Z

i used to be very biased in eating octopi, because of my high respect for them and their intelligence (which i believe also gives birth to higher levels of emotion and empathy)... until i learned that large (intelligent) octopi sometimes eat the smaller species of octopi, then i didnt feel too bad about eating them *if* theyre tiny. Then i thought maybe theyre just baby large octopi.... now i dont eat them anymore.

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Coleoptra lyrics

2006-06-09T04:44:25Z

Octopus' Garden

I want to be under the sea
in an octopus' garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
in his octopus' garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
and octopus' garden with me

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hide-away beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea-bed
On an octopus' garden in a cave
We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
Oh, what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden with you
In an octopus' garden with you
In an octopus' garden with you

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octopus love

2006-06-05T15:35:29Z

sort of adult content (no nudity though)

http://jameth.whatthefuck.com/feb2006/6/octopus.jpg

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Deliciously repulsive

2006-05-10T01:34:15Z

http://www.octodog.net/

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this is silly

2006-05-09T23:26:42Z

http://beautifulatrocities.com/archives/2006/01/urban_legends_t.html

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giant squid retrieved intact off england

2006-03-01T21:03:09Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4756514.stm

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Squid whisk

2006-02-28T20:52:25Z

Look what my woe-man got for me!

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f10/9d2/f109d286-2b89-4225-b0b7-4fea12b6bc25

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/49b/c51/49bc5117-e8ec-4520-9526-6e417086fed5

Now I know I am loved.

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ROV Attacks Octopus

2006-01-20T20:05:42Z

http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200601200130.rov_attacks_octopus

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Octohat (knitted)

2005-12-29T22:51:04Z

http://www.livejournal.com/community/_octopus_/71285.html?view=271221#t271221

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Discovery channel show

2005-12-28T19:29:12Z

Who here saw the show on Discovery Channel where they were attempting to capture a live giant squid larvae in an attempt to rear one to adulthood?

It was cool in that there were several varied types of squid that seemed to be doing very well and were documented etc etc..
The main problem I saw is that they killed at least 9 giant squid larvae. That is not even considering how many they killed that never made it on board the boat. It was depressing each time they said "Oh, and now THIS one is dead too"

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Monteray Bay Aquarium

2005-12-06T00:19:21Z

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/octopus.asp

I just saw this and was blown away. They have a giant octopus that is very impressive.

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octopus table

2005-11-11T21:15:57Z

http://www.forraimetaldesign.com/octopus.htm

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any success with cuttlefish??

2005-10-28T10:50:15Z

Has anyone on this tribe successfully kept cuttlefish in a salt water aquarium ???

If so, what amount of upkeep was needed ??

Cuttlefish seem to be very smart and alert creatures, however I've never attempted replicating a salt water environment in an aquarium ..

Elaine ..

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Deep Rising

2005-10-22T20:42:54Z

That's the title to a very bad movie I saw last night, with a giant Octopus infiltrating a cruise ship. The thing was, its tentacles seemed to be sentient unto themselves, and had mouths that opened and devoured the hapless passengers that got near them. But it also had a central head.

Saul, there are no such beasties (Lovecraftian critters aside) in the ocean, even on a small scale. Right?

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Historical facts on WWII ATTACK

2005-10-21T20:33:09Z

Hey all- in my teachings aboard a museumship in L.A. I gather stories from WWII vets and publish them in the ship's newspaper. A couple of years back I met a Navy Blimp crewman,who flew out of Bermuda on anti sub and convoy missions. We talked about geek stuff for an hour until he mentioned a rescue at sea. A tanker had been torpedoed off Bermuda,and most everyone survived-all in a 40 foot life boat. They survivied torpedoing,and sharks.. but what happened next is described in Benchley's "The Beast". Over a three night period they were preyed on by an Archituthus. Something sixty or so feet long. Two nights in a row it took crewman right out of the boat. The third night they hacked at it with knives, spanked it with paddles,and shot it with a flaregun,finally driving it off. They were rescued by the blimp the next day.
SO this guys sez to me; "they had chunks of it in the boat and gave one to my skipper. I think he still has it."
Thought you'd enjoy that.
Finally we see one alive! Something older than dinosaurs! Sorry Coelocanth, take a backseat!

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Scientists capture giant squid on camera

2005-10-20T03:25:25Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have taken the first photographs of one of the most mysterious creatures in the deep ocean -- the giant squid.

Until now the only information about the behavior of the creatures which measure up to 18 meters (59 feet) in length has been based on dead or dying squid washed up on shore or captured in commercial fishing nets.

But Tsunemi Kubodera, of the National Science Museum, and Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association, both in Tokyo have captured the first images of Architeuthis attacking bait 900 meters (yards) below the surface in the cold, dark waters of the North Pacific.

"We show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment," they said in a report on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society.

Little is known about the creatures because it has been so difficult to locate and study them alive. Large ships and specialist equipment, which is costly, are needed to study deep sea environments.

The Japanese scientists found the squid by following sperm whales, the most effective hunters of giant squid, as they gathered to feed between September and December in the deep waters off the coast of the Ogasawara Islands in the North Pacific.

They used a remote long-line camera and depth logging system to capture the giant squid in the ocean depths.

"The most dramatic character of giant squids is the pair of extremely long tentacles, distinct from the eight shorter arms. The long tentacles make up to two-thirds of the length of the dead specimens to date," the scientists said in the journal.

They added that the giant squid appear to be a much more active predator than researchers had suspected and tangled their prey in their elongated feeding tentacles.

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Cooking with Flash

2005-09-30T15:22:06Z

http://www.deepfriedlive.com/

OK, at least *I* thought it was funny.

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Octopus Pulp

2005-08-25T16:29:38Z

Octopus-related magazine covers
http://www.cyrune.com/pulp.html

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Incredible Suckers

2005-08-23T15:41:58Z

Has anyone here seen the amazing documentary INCREDIBLE SUCKERS? I found it in my college's library a few years ago and was so excited by it that I made two or three friends watch it...they weren't nearly as impressed as they should have been.

I don't know whether the film is in print anymore. I found it listed for sale here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/shop/suckers.html
But when I called, the line went dead before an operator picked up. Anyone have any connections to bootleggers of obscure nature documentaries? I have to have it in my collection.

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Shark vs. Octopus

2005-08-22T19:21:33Z

"watch an octopus display a startling ability"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_players_blue/shark_hi.html

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start them early

2005-07-29T15:48:34Z

http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~russell/squid.html

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More than one octopus is...

2005-07-29T00:41:25Z

from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary [online edition]:

"The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, since the word comes from Greek, the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for Latin plurals, is incorrect."

This has been mentioned in another thread, but, I'm mentioning it again because I'm an English-language pedant [ok, copyeditor] and it bears repeating.

and can I just say that this tribe is one of the bright spots in my online life, and for all the filters I put on my media, there's always room for one more ceph-related link. so suckerkisses to you all.

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Largest squid so far

2005-07-27T15:43:16Z

"... immature female ..."

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50222&Reg=1

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Mystery of Large Squid Caught on Video

2005-06-11T02:34:30Z

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_050302_squid_vid.html

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The Calamari Wrestler

2005-05-20T03:25:24Z

A new movie I read about last week in the NY Times. Not much at imdb about it yet, but I expect that will be fixed soon. I can't wait for this to open near me:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428662/

Google search for sites:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calamari+wrestler+movie

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some ceph pics

2005-05-15T01:14:26Z

Cuttle gals play hard to get:

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050125.html

Big enough to eat:

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050120.html

I love bobtail squid, don't you? They are so damn CUTE!

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050113.html

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Awww, leetle babies!

2005-05-11T13:06:21Z

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113481213785_79/?hub=SciTech

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Cephalopod Power! Cephalopod Power!

2005-05-09T04:06:30Z

*thrusts tentacle fist to the sky*

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Ceph Style

2005-04-27T14:24:02Z

http://www.defunker.com/shirts/octopus/male/

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heh

2005-04-22T07:01:01Z

I got my bilogy teacher with this one. A cat has kittens and a bear has cubs. What do squid have? 10 points to the winner.

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socktopus!

2005-04-18T20:09:30Z

sold out now, but they're making more...

http://www.plainmabel.com/index.php?item=446&ret=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plainmabel.com%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3D1%26category%3D8

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Mmmmm squid

2005-04-15T00:43:41Z

Had to let out my inner squid. Like it?

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the nerve

2005-04-12T15:05:00Z

at least two people have had the nerve to ask why I chose a squid for my tattoo. yea, I can give some comment about the sublime oddness and everything else that draws me in, but really, if one does not know, I am not sure they will ever really understand.

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Pound for pound

2005-04-02T04:42:23Z

There's more of them than of us:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4811363%5E13762,00.html

by way of boingboing

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welding project

2005-03-04T21:28:11Z

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/template/pub%2CViewPhoto.vm/context/person?page=94&currentoffset=562&parentid=19038ed6-a828-4986-a1f1-6d0723a3eec3&sortby=oldest&rows=6&r=10535

40lb of metal, about 17" mantle length.

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Grad School?

2005-02-22T04:26:42Z

If cephs were your thing, where would you go to grad school?
Anyone?

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a WHAT-pod?!??

2005-02-16T21:33:01Z

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/cephalipod-033226.php

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Aliens of the Deep IMAX

2005-02-02T19:16:30Z

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417415/

a couple of beautiful shots of cephalopods, nestled into an overscripted advertisement for NASA (maybe that's a bit harsh)...

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I heard today on the news ....

2005-01-28T23:09:58Z

as a teaser that I did not hear the rest of, a giant squid washed ashore someplace today anyone know about this ...... ??

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Dishonesty the Best Policy...

2005-01-26T02:40:14Z

...Cuttlefish Study Concludes
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,68901859,1439,f/
All is fair in love and war, but some animals take it to the extreme by temporarily turning themselves into something they're not. Findings published today in the journal Nature provide two new examples of how these mimics can get ahead.
The mating scene for giant Australian cuttlefish (Sepia apama) is rife with fighting and deception. Small males often scoop their much larger counterparts by pretending to be female themselves, which allows the runts to get closer to females of reproductive age. "In the blink of an eye they can pull out of it and go back to being a male," observes lead author Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. But although researchers had observed this behavior in the wild, it was unclear how successful the male mimics were at actually fertilizing females. Hanlon and his colleagues studied the creatures in their natural habitat and used DNA fingerprinting to analyze eggs and calculate the mimics' success rates. According to the report, the female impersonators fertilized female fish in 60 percent of their attempts, a success rate about twice that of honest male cuttlefish.

second report by researchers at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., details a new example of mimicry in vertebrates, which usually lack the ability to switch appearances. Isabelle M. Cote and Karen L. Cheney found that the bluestriped fangblenny fish (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos) is an exception and can turn its disguise on and off at will. By pretending to be a bluestreak cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus--an animal that helps other species by removing parasites--the fangblenny then ambushes its prey. Although the physiological basis of the animals' color changes is not yet understood, the scientists found that rapid shifts in hue are possible and that the fish can maintain the different appearance for several hours. This flexibility is beneficial because if there are no cleaner fish to impersonate, the fangblenny fish can revert to its signature blue stripe, which allows the creature to blend in better with the surroundings. --Sarah Graham"

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Ika Dance

2005-01-20T03:45:16Z

I don't know if I posted this before but I just found the lyrics to the Japanese Hakodate Squid Dance again and thought other Ceph nerds might enjoy it. This dance is also acted out with hands over one's head and jumping like a flying squid:

Hakodate meibutsu ika odori
ikasashi sihokara ikasoomen
moo hitotsu omakeni ika popo
ika ika ika ika ika odori

rough translation:
Hakodate's famous product - squid dance
squid sashimi salted squid and some other squid dish
one more dish - ika popo
squid squid squid squid squid dance

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most tentacles

2004-11-16T23:11:21Z

http://cheston.com/pbf/PBF002BCNauticalAwards.html

from http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html

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The erotic octopus-human interface

2004-11-15T19:40:38Z

Not very work friendly, some pr0n:

http://pharyngula.org/images/teraoka_octopus.jpg
http://pharyngula.org/images/saeki_octopus.jpg

more at : http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/octopus_sex/

photos (could be considered tasteless bordering on cruel, beware):
http://tgp.89.com/xnxx/?p=3gD-5ADN3EzN.htm

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The Riveting, Super-Exciting, Egg Rearing Journal

2004-10-22T23:47:50Z

Old tail I found in my bookmarks recently.

A cephalopod fan, while looking for a large octopus to buy, finds a pet shop with a mom octopus with a cache of eggs. Thus begins a quest to raise baby octopuses at home, a seriously non-trivial task.

http://www.jimbolouislabs.com/eggjournal.htm

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jelly fish

2004-10-21T21:25:27Z

http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/jellyfish191004.shtml

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jellyfish

2004-10-21T17:50:50Z

http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/jellyfish191004.shtml

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Cephalopod Art

2004-10-12T16:33:37Z

I just stumbled across this:

http://www.elizabethmcgrath.com/extrashit/extrastuff.html

Isn't she beautiful?

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endangered squid

2004-10-07T23:25:07Z

http://arizona.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=38162e9b-990e-40be-8324-2af0f368b0e1&_message_resource=info.post.created&tribeid=7efacee3-84a9-4f73-91af-85d9ddf347a1

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Need Argonaut

2004-10-06T17:25:13Z

I am carving a series of cephalopod tiles in clay. I've finished a blue-ringed octopus and a striped-pyjama squid. I'm in the middle of a pair of nautiluses (nautili?). I want to do an argonaut.

What I figured I'd do was, cast the shell and carve the animal. A bit of a cheat, but it's a bit trickier than a simple nautilus shell.

I had a small Argonauta hians shell that I cast as an experiment. The process destroyed the shell, as I knew it would. But the result was splendid. The shell is largely protein, with a structure very like most gastropods' operculums, so it softens when wet. This makes it release easily from the plaster.

The thing is, to keep the size consistent with the rest of the series, I need a shell, or shells, that are about 80-90mm. My test shell was half that size. I need a bigger one, or two. It does NOT have to be a perfect shell, as long as one side is in good shape.

Hians tend to be the most common, so least expensive. But they don't often get very big. Probably the next affordable would be nodosa. All the other species get into more money than I can afford, let alone bear to sacrifice for this project.

I've scoped out shell dealers on the internet. The nearest one who has what I need at a price I can afford is in Brasil.

So if any of you has an argonaut shell you'd be willing to part with, I would be interested in buying it, or perhaps you'd like to swap for some ceph tiles? They'd make for a killer bathroom or kitchen backsplash.

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Giant Squid in the News

2004-09-30T21:35:30Z

Yay, wheeeeeee pictures...

OceanFootage.com Has Giant Squid in HD
http://www.digitalproducer.com/2004/01_jan/news/01_26/oceanfootage0129.htm

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urban myth?

2004-09-30T20:38:30Z

i have on several occasions whilst diving of the dorset coast, in the english channel, come across cuttlefish, a truly wonderful creature and great to observe, especially whilst going through its colour/pignentation thing, anyway ive been told and have perpetuated the fact that these cuttlefish have intelligence comparable to a domestic cat. has anybody heard this as well.

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California Squid Fishery

2004-09-13T22:39:35Z

http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91~3089~2399109,00.html

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Kon Tiki Rides Again!!!

2004-09-07T03:42:52Z

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/tech/main641473.shtml

Don't you wish you could go?

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tsk tsk

2004-09-07T03:32:05Z

Man who smuggled pot with squid shipment sentenced

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040830-1049-marijuana-squid.html

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New Species found in underwater survey

2004-08-06T21:29:11Z

Hi fellow tentacle aficionados!

New to this tribe, I offer the following link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3542740.stm

It's from the BBC. Enjoy!!!

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cephalopod products

2004-07-07T18:07:36Z

http://www.squidlight.com

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Monterey Aquarium?

2004-07-07T00:48:38Z

I heard a rumor that the aquarium might be getting a special octopus exhibit in the future [kinda like they did with the jelly exhibit]. is anyone here a member or does anyone have some other special knowledge that might elucidate this rumor?

i looked at http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_fo/fo_oct_exhibit.asp but that's not the exhibit i'm thinking of [that cuttlefish is *s* cute...].

perhaps it's just wishful thinking...

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encounters with big big squid

2004-07-06T03:39:22Z

http://www.seaofcortez.org/Log6.html

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Cepaholopd Snacks

2004-07-04T20:16:20Z

If this don't take the cake;

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0207/ice-cream/3.html

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Forthcoming Title

2004-06-30T23:02:11Z

go to http://www.haggis-on-whey.com/about.html
click on "List of Upcoming Titles"

scroll down until you see "The H-O-W English-to-Giant Squid Dictionary"

Tell Santa you will get one for Christmas, or his workshop will mysteriously burn down like it did when you were twelve.

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The Anguish

2004-06-24T03:45:08Z

"Perfect for your den, office, or houseboat..."

http://www.brandonbird.com/order_anguish.html

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vampire squid

2004-05-29T19:03:33Z

There are a couple of nice pictures of vampire squids in the latest National Geographic. Look for them at your dentist's office. :^)

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Attack of the giant red octopus

2004-05-21T18:14:07Z

http://www.pinpinlelapin.com/

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Cephalopod Links

2004-05-18T03:56:04Z

http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/

The Cephalopod Page!

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Cephalopod Reading List

2004-05-15T21:27:11Z

Cephalopods, A World Guide by Mark Norman
Ah, for the photos alone; wonderpus, the striped-pyjama squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, five different species of nautilus, eight of blue-ringed octopus, eight! Who knew?

Cephalopod Behavior by Hanlon & Messenger
Okay, I haven't cracked this one yet. But how can it be anything but riveting when you figure how bright these creatures are, if alas, tragically short-lived.

Civilisation & the Limpet by Martin Wells
Not entirely about those brainiest of mollusks, but enough juicy stuff to satisfy the most fanatical of cephalopod phans.

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Octopods in the news

2004-05-14T01:53:53Z

If only I was on the other coast...

Aquarium lets visitors get past the glass
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/travel/1076504688295140.xml

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Seeking Shells

2004-05-11T01:19:44Z

I'm doing an art project that requires a couple of Argonauta shells, about 90mm.

Anybody have any to sell or swap?

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squid news, because decapods matter too...

2004-04-14T04:01:01Z

Rotten squid gas may have killed 3 crewmembers on ill-fated ship

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040414p2a00m0dm002000c.html

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The Megasquid

2004-04-01T23:38:41Z

Hey y'all...I thought you might enjoy a pic I have in my Tribe photos..It's a scientist's idea of what the largest land animal might be 200,000,000 years into the future, if evolution/earth changes continue as planned. Makes me all warm inside *sighs*
(for more info check out the Discovery Channel website for "The Future is Wild")

Thomas

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photos

2004-04-01T22:50:32Z

i posted some photos

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Octopuses in the library

2004-03-25T03:04:28Z

I just got checked out this book:
The Octopus's Garden: Hydrothermal Vents and Other Mysteries of the Deep Sea, by Cindy Lee Van Dover

if i learn anything irresistible, will let y'all know.

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Colossal and mean

2004-03-16T19:24:53Z

I missed this one last year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm

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Related Tribes

2004-03-16T19:07:49Z

tribe.net has no set up for us to form rings yet, but in the meantime perhaps we can do something informally. In that spirit, I'm starting this topic thread where we can list related tribes. Add 'em as you find 'em:

Marine Life
For people who love the ocean environment and the animals who live there

http//marinelife.tribe.net

Shell Collecting
Conchology, Malacology & Beachcombing. Because there is more than one way to be a geek.

And to help you find us via tribe search:
collect collections mollusk mollusks seashell seashells snail snails gastropod gastropods bivalve bivalve mantle clam cowrie cowrie cone cones murex volute volutes conch conches stromb strombs beachcomb beach snorkle dive scuba reef ocean sea seashore tide tidal tidepool marine biology etc...

http//shellcollecting.tribe.net

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