There's a flying squid?
There's a flying squid?
Can squid really fly? Yes, says David Brian Butvill, there are a few squid species that can get airborne... Here's how and why
I knew there's a flying squid that likes to post memes though
If a squid swimming near the surface is spooked by a predator or a boat, it streamlines into a torpedo shape and fires itself out of the water. At the same time, it splays its eight tentacles into a flat, fan-like pattern in front of its face – some breeds even exude mucus to fill in the spaces, creating a unified, kite-like surface. It also flares a pair of fins near its rear end and – voilà – the squid becomes a living, breathing jet.
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How many tickles does it take to make a squid fly?
I figure it's got to be about ten tickles
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Wait wait wait...you have no idea how a squid would react if you tickled it. What if it freaked out and bit your nose off? First you need to cautiously do a test tickle
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Squids have two tentacles. The rest are arms.
A set of eight arms and two distinctive tentacles surround the mouth
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Two tentacles and, if you're like me, a great big hectocotylus.
That's right, ladies. You know you want this squid's hectocotylus getting past your mantle.
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Are you one of the species that rips theirs off and hucks it at the female to prevent being eaten?
Maybe I'm thinking of an octopus..
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I don't know what you're thinking of, but it's none of us higher molluscs.
NSFO porn:
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Apparently I've been misled as the octopus I was thinking of, the argonaut, doesn't actually have a detachable hectocotylus.
Zefrank lied to me.
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That's interesting, when I was a kid I remember always hearing that an octopus has eight tentacles and a squid has ten. I suppose 'limbs' might have been a more accurate descriptor.
Oddly, I knew that cuttlefish have a distinction between arms and tentacles. I'm not in biology, but I always thought of them as tiny squid, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were related.
If you're correcting me on the joke, it's a pun where "ten tickles" sounds like "tentacles." The number ten is unrelated to the number of limbs - it's actually usually told about an octopus
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Octopi have no tentacles, those are all arms!
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So wait, you're telling me that an octopus doesn't have tentacles at all?
My whole entire world (in regards to a small subset of cephalopods) has been turned upside down.
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Yeah, I had the same feeling when I learned about that. It seems to be a common misnomer.
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