Tight holes, filled with tentacles.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:36 am

As an aside to posting cranky rebuttals, I've decided to share this video of an O. macropus making its way out of a 1 inch hole. This is new research footage shot by my buddy James, in Bermuda.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... s+macropus

Lulujayne · Post by **Lulujayne** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:41 am

Oh my God, and the little guy makes it look too easy!

The almost hypnotic quality of that video has calmed me down too. I love you his "skull" squished down to 1 inch at the end

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Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:55 am

Eerily reminiscent of me trying to put on a slightly-too-small pair of tights, although without the head-squeezing part.

Mav · Post by **Mav** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:23 am

Insert buttsex joke here.

Xnapalmxmorningx · Post by **Xnapalmxmorningx** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:09 am

I love how they can do that.
One of my favorite stories about octopuses is how the octopus escapes at night in a lab to eat the crabs in another tank.

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:22 pm

To quote a friend(interestingly enough on a gumby episode).

"My god, if I were that flexible I'd never leave the house."

"Not even for sex?"

"Nah, I'd have em delivered. I'm sure Mr. Fantastic has some good numbers."

BriHahn · Post by **BriHahn** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:51 pm

My God he's squishy.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:09 pm

Wow, I get claustrophobic just looking at that.

Though me and my sisters used to hide in the little tunnel under our parents' bed when we were little.

Not so much anymore though.

MistressMaggie · Post by **MistressMaggie** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:26 pm

There was a tunnel under your parent's bed?

What the heck is an octopus made of? Jello?

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:54 pm

An octopus doesn't have a skeleton. If you didn't have a skeleton you'd be made out of jello too. An octopus can move the saw way your tongue can move, so think about it that way.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:56 pm

swordsman3003 wrote:An octopus doesn't have a skeleton. If you didn't have a skeleton you'd be made out of jello too. An octopus can move the saw way your tongue can move, so think about it that way.

Octopuses can move a lot better than your tongue, as their muscles are supported by a fluid filled channel and are horizontally and vertically striated along their entire length, which means they can expand and contract in any direction, a compared to your tongue which can only expand/contract in two, plus that whole pesky being anchored to your skeleton part.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:20 am

MistressMaggie wrote:There was a tunnel under your parent's bed?

What the heck is an octopus made of? Jello?

Well, the tunnel is more of a small wooden pathway where the drawers under the bed stop.

It's a huge bed, needless to say.

Lulujayne · Post by **Lulujayne** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:45 am

aeridus wrote:
MistressMaggie wrote:There was a tunnel under your parent's bed?

What the heck is an octopus made of? Jello?
Well, the tunnel is more of a small wooden pathway where the drawers under the bed stop. It's a huge bed, needless to say.

*coughs nervously*

Glad that's all cleared up, the "tunnel under the bed" thing made me quite concerned for a minute there

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:08 am

Nah, us kids didn't dig a tunnel under our parents' bed to spy on them when they were having sex.

Not at all.

JohnnyTwoEyes · Post by **JohnnyTwoEyes** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:06 pm

aeridus wrote:Nah, us kids didn't dig a tunnel under our parents' bed to spy on them when they were having sex. Not at all.

It's a kinky Hogan's Heroes!

Oniphire · Post by **Oniphire** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:54 pm

squidflakes wrote:
swordsman3003 wrote:An octopus doesn't have a skeleton. If you didn't have a skeleton you'd be made out of jello too. An octopus can move the saw way your tongue can move, so think about it that way.
Octopuses can move a lot better than your tongue, as their muscles are supported by a fluid filled channel and are horizontally and vertically striated along their entire length, which means they can expand and contract in any direction, a compared to your tongue which can only expand/contract in two, plus that whole pesky being anchored to your skeleton part.

Such control & flexibility. I'm jealous.

BriHahn · Post by **BriHahn** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:22 pm

Do octopuses have brains then?

I can't help but think that squishing the brain down is not healthy.

Reesa-chan · Post by **Reesa-chan** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:09 am

My thought processes as I was watching this ran somewhere along these lines:

Are you sure that hole's only an inch wide?

Oh wow, the possibilities...

Is it wrong that I'm watching this and thinking of that video with the eels?

Kittyboymuffin · Post by **Kittyboymuffin** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:30 am

Course not, silly! ^^

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:31 pm

BriHahn wrote:Do octopuses have brains then?

I can't help but think that squishing the brain down is not healthy.

Of course they have brains. Their brains are some of the most advanced brains ever encountered in a sea creature, and definitely the most advanced among mollusks.

The squishing isn't as bad for their brain as you might think. Since they have no skeletal structure, their brains are more sold than ours and can tolerate much more shock. The octopus brain is also wrapped around the esophagus behind the buccal mass, which is a group of muscles and knots of tissue where all the arms come together in a ring around the beak. That area deforms the least when an octopus squishes, so the brain isn't being rattled around as much as it might seem.