Wow. Utterly beautiful. That image would make a lovely piece of artwork for the wall (though I’m guessing the girlfriend would raise significant objections).
BMatthewssays
You can totally get away with this as long as you call it the “cuddle-fish”. Girls eat that up.
…
or you have a nerdy girlfriend like me
Since we’re speaking of beautiful cuttlefish pics,
There’s another important one here:
Look fast, ‘cos you’ll see that the post gives a warning
These beauties might soon disappear.
I think a poem would be appropriate in here somewhere…..
zer0says
If some mad scientist ever finds a way to graft cuttlefish eyes into humans, I’m so in line for that operation. I want to make my little Ws with pupils! They look so mean too when they get aggressive. It’s like 100 times better than what we can do with our eyebrows to look mad.
Odonatasays
Great photo! According to Wikipedia, sepia latimanus is the second largest cuttlefish species, and can grow to 50 cm in mantle length and 10 kg in weight.
Wow. Utterly beautiful. That image would make a lovely piece of artwork for the wall (though I’m guessing the girlfriend would raise significant objections).
You can totally get away with this as long as you call it the “cuddle-fish”. Girls eat that up.
…
or you have a nerdy girlfriend like me
#2: I’ll have to give that a try, though I think my girlfriend is catching on to my semantic trickery… :)
That’s pretty tentacular!
Since we’re speaking of beautiful cuttlefish pics,
There’s another important one here:
Look fast, ‘cos you’ll see that the post gives a warning
These beauties might soon disappear.
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/12/how_much_do_you_like_big_cuttl.php
I think a poem would be appropriate in here somewhere…..
If some mad scientist ever finds a way to graft cuttlefish eyes into humans, I’m so in line for that operation. I want to make my little Ws with pupils! They look so mean too when they get aggressive. It’s like 100 times better than what we can do with our eyebrows to look mad.
Great photo! According to Wikipedia, sepia latimanus is the second largest cuttlefish species, and can grow to 50 cm in mantle length and 10 kg in weight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadclub_Cuttlefish
Beautiful! And I’m glad the Friday Cephalopod is back! I really missed it last week! :(
CVA
As a lurker may I say;
Yay!!! Friday Cephalapod is back.
That’s a cute fish.