Those A-Mazing Cephalopods
20 January 2007
Via one of PZ Myers’ infamous Cephalopod Friday posts, here’s a link to a National Geographic video of an octopus sliding through a plexiglass maze. It uses its suction cups to pull itself through the tubes.
Best line: “Can you imagine how much fun it would be to be an octopus?”
Little-known cephalopod fact: Because octopuses’ bodies contain no air bladders or gas pockets they can live at depths where the pressure is so great a human being would implode.
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