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Amy
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posted 26 March 2005 03:03 PM      Profile for Amy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles
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If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.

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Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.



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Scott Piatkowski
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posted 26 March 2005 04:05 PM      Profile for Scott Piatkowski   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Heh! As It Happens ran this story with the following lead-in: "We've always said that octupuses (or is that octopi) can't be trusted. Now there's a new report that confirms why..."
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skdadl
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posted 26 March 2005 04:11 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I love this story. Go, octopusses. Wave those li'l suckers.
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Papal Bull
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posted 26 March 2005 05:03 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I have heard that they have the mental faculties of a three year old human. With problem solving skills equalling that of a young, larval human. Should they become long lived, bipedial land dwellers...I will find a way to make peace with them. So we can FINALLY conquer those bastardly macaws.
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Hephaestion
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posted 26 March 2005 05:44 PM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I hear the Reformatories have taken to disguising themselves by walking upright as well...
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