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  1. EnolaGaia

    Octopus Farms

    This is an interesting article explaining the down sides of octopus farms. One reason concerns ethics, and another concerns environmental impacts. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-warned-that-we-absolutely-must-not-farm-octopuses
  2. Quake42

    What Is The Proper Plural Of "Octopus"?

    Octopodes! (Sorry, pedantry getting the better of me again...) :D
  3. P

    The Octopus Thread

    CNN story. An octopus in a German zoo has learned to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act underwater. Frida, a five-month-old female octopus, opens the jars by pressing her body on the lid and grasping the sides with the suckers on her eight tentacles. With a...
  4. A

    The Giant Octopus

    Speaking of vanished mystery photos Thunderbirds Are Go [FT105], does anyone but me recall a "non-fiction" book published in the early 1960s that included multiple action photographs of a hard-hat salvage diver grappling with an octopus roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle? Some of the...
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