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Oct. 31st, 2008 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking
"A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp."
Apparently, the light annoyed him, so he climbed out of his tank, aimed carefully, and sprayed it with a jet of water - which caused it to turn off, so he started doing that every night.
I love octopi. They're awesome.
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Date: 2008-10-31 06:19 pm (UTC)It's Octopuses. Octopi is a bullshit word.
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Date: 2008-11-01 02:43 am (UTC)A Winner is you!
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Date: 2008-10-31 11:44 pm (UTC)Re: pwned
Date: 2008-11-01 10:24 am (UTC)Had you checked the two entries above that, rather than rushing ahead to the one that agreed with you, you'd have noticed that octopi is also allowable as a plural form of octopus.
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Date: 2008-10-31 08:11 pm (UTC)And apostrophe's.
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Date: 2008-10-31 09:54 pm (UTC)A winner is you!
Date: 2008-10-31 11:41 pm (UTC)1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Gk. oktopous "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot." Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us is the L. noun ending that takes -i in plural.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Date: 2008-10-31 11:51 pm (UTC)Re: A winner is you!
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Date: 2008-11-01 10:22 am (UTC)Must do more reading.
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Date: 2008-10-31 11:25 pm (UTC)The thermostat for my furnace is sentient, and it's a bimetalic coil.
Sapience is another beast entirely, and I will personally stab the asshole who started confusing the two in Sci Fi I SWEAR TO GOD.
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Date: 2008-10-31 06:27 pm (UTC)http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/OctopusSmarts.php
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/AnimalEnrichment/Octopus/
More than one "behind the scenes" public aquarium tour has told the same story of a resident octopus that would go from tank to tank, eating fish in neighboring exhibits, and then going BACK to its own exhibit by morning, creating a disappearing fish mystery until they set up a camera overnight.
There was also a mixed exhibit of sharks, with one octopus, and whole sharks would go missing...or be just head and tail left over, overnight. They removed the octopus once they realized what was going on.
I often recommend the book, "The Octopus and the Orangutan", by Eugene Linden, and give it as gifts; it discusses octopus intellect. I have long believed that, if they lived longer than 2 years, they would take over the world :)
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Date: 2008-11-03 07:14 pm (UTC)Though- it might freak the staff out even further when he takes them and re-creates Atlantis in his tank.
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Date: 2008-10-31 10:22 pm (UTC)"For my next trick - two hermit crabs and a chain saw!"
Octopus and ravens - both critters with a lot of intelligence and a sense of humour.
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