Tiny you-know-who was telling me about octopusses the other day. They sound gross. Then he showed me a picture:
And I was right. But I premember them differently, like on boxes of cereal and stuff when I was a kid. They were always purple and had a big smiley face. This one doesn't look like he could smile if he wanted to.
Maybe I've got the wrong animal. I mean, aren't octopusses those weird creatures that have like eight testicles? And a whole bunch of arms?
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3 comments:
Agree. Octopusses are ugly. Giant octopi are even uglier. This is one animal I wouldn't miss, then again I don't live in the ocean. Maybe they are useful there, but not my kind of pet.
Yeah, and besides all that they seem gross.
This is Justin: I always wanted to dive the Puget sound JUST to get a chance to see the Giant Pacific Octopus. Totally harmless to people, but they are really curious and fascinated with divers if they haven't see to many before. They'll even pull your mask and stuff unless you push their arms away. They aren't HUGE huge like you might think. They have a formidable wingspan when they want to "trawl" for small edibles but otherwise they are quite compact. But their eyes are strangely intelligent, and rightly so because they are too. I'd love to dive with one, or those color-undulating cuttlefish, that would be fantastic! But I'd need a drysuit in the Sound plus I still have my unresolved ear problem. Probably won't happen, but you can see them at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Not much of a squid guy myself, although how can you not like the huge 60-foot ones.
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