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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@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world .... your squid signal has been shone into the fediverse skyline
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Yes indeed! See my response to Viking_Hippie about getting my username. It is due to this awesome fact.
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Duh.
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I can vouch for this guys experience.
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Careful, you’ll summon him
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That was my intention
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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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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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I wonder whether @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world knew and based his name on it or it's just a coincidence 🤔
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I did know! One day many years ago (we're talking 1990s here), I was talking to people on IRC and I said, "you know what would be awesome? If squid could fly."
And then I looked just for the hell of it and it turns out they can. I've been FlyingSquid ever since.
I still think that's one of the coolest things in nature.
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When the day gets late the Squid dons its little propellers and crosses the heavens squirting the night sky until the cuttlefish of day chases it forever westward.
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Well, this here is the best I can do…
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Way back, i spent 1 day in my life really believing they do exist, until digging deeper exposed me to the sad truth.
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And here I was thinking it was just a fun username.
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It's like a squishy transformer