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There's a flying squid?
(www.discoverwildlife.com)
Duh.
I can vouch for this guys experience.
I wonder whether @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world knew and based his name on it or it's just a coincidence 🤔
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.
I think you're one of the coolest people in the fediverse ..... keep flying you crazy squid
Thanks! I feel the same about you!
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world .... your squid signal has been shone into the fediverse skyline
Yes indeed! See my response to Viking_Hippie about getting my username. It is due to this awesome fact.
Careful, you’ll summon him
That was my intention
How many tickles does it take to make a squid fly?
I figure it's got to be about ten tickles
Squids have two tentacles. The rest are arms.
A set of eight arms and two distinctive tentacles surround the mouth
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.
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..
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.
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
Octopi have no tentacles, those are all arms!
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.
Yeah, I had the same feeling when I learned about that. It seems to be a common misnomer.
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
And here I was thinking it was just a fun username.
Well, this here is the best I can do…
Way back, i spent 1 day in my life really believing they do exist, until digging deeper exposed me to the sad truth.
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.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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