Pushmi-Pullyu filted:

http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffrsb/out...elligence.html
"In 1873, a stock of young lump-fish in the Brighton Aquarium began
to slowly diminish for no apparent reason. Almost daily, there was one
less fish in the tank and no clues as to what had happened. One early
morning the mystery was solved when an aquarium official found an
octopus in the lump fishes' tank. The octopus somehow had discovered
that the fish were in an adjoining tank, and had thereafter raided it
nightly. To avoid detection, every night after its meal, the octopus
would return to its tank looking innocent of any wrong doing. But this
was not the end. After its capture, the octopus seemed to know that it
was being watched, so it remained in its tank for a week. Then one
night, two octopuses climbed out of the tank, the previous offender
and another, moved in opposite directions, both avoiding the adjacent
tanks and entered those beyond. Unfortunately for both octopuses, one
found itself in a tank with several over-sized crabs and the other
with a giant lobster."

There are two parts of this story that bother me more than the idea that an
octopus might travel from one tank to another...to wit:

a) "somehow had discovered" - I'd love to know how that happened...did one just
get out of its tank on a lark and happen to stumble across the tank full of
yummy edible fish?...

b) "looking innocent of any wrong doing" - intelligent I'll give you, but how
well does the body language of guilt and shame transfer across a species-gap
like that?...

Elsethread someone mentions "cephalopod porn"...I've seen video shot in the
aftermath of a deep-sea vent opening and raising the local temperature, in which
many species multiplied and grew prolifically...one brief sequence shows a pair
of octopuses [1] fondling each other...the narrator points out that not only are
they of two completely different species, but they're both male....

R H "does octopus hentai involve tentacles too?" Draney

[1] http://members.cox.net/bagelhenge/octo.jpg


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