Look closely at the eel in this picture. Look up around its head. Do you wonder what that odd little blob is?
Now go see the animation. All will be clear.
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Look closely at the eel in this picture. Look up around its head. Do you wonder what that odd little blob is?
Now go see the animation. All will be clear.
That is simply awesome. And everything in that shot looks so colorful.
Well now we know why yesterday’s Secular Humanist Octopus needed to have three of its arms free!
Actually it’s not entirely clear to me. Why is the octopus on the eel’s head in the first place? I don’t really get what’s happening.
Mocking, it, presumably? I like to think it’s making the Zoidberg noise at it runs off.
Well, it could be coincidence, but I note that the Cephalopod is strategically positioned in the one place where the Chordate can’t grab it with its jaws.
Well yeah, but it could have just steered clear entirely.
Well, the animation doesn’t catch the beginning, and it vamoosed with the standard ink squirt at the end. Perhaps the eel tried to ambush it in close quarters at the beginning.
@cervantes #3
Morays eat octopi, so it is a safe bet the octopus is doing it’s level best to not make the choice between being eaten or having one of it’s arms eaten. There are a fair few octopi around here that have had to sacrifice an arm or two to morays.
As Dean Martin once (almost) sang;
“If it makes a great fuss
’bout a small octopus
That’s a moray”.
I’ll get my coat.
That’s a moray
Thank you, Acolyte! This made my night!
AoS
teehee
and
won’t someone think of the poor moray?
moray looked really distressed
@8: Octopuses. Octopi is incorrect. (/nitpick)
Clearly, the octopus made the eight seconds and dismounted. 44 points for the rider, 42 for the
bullmoray, total 86.Trebuchet,
To pick your nit back, octopi is also acceptable as are simply octopus and octopodes, though the last is a bit pedantic. I take it you come down on the prescriptive rather than descriptive side of the linguistic debate.
octopuses!,!!
Ths is murica!!M!