Sure, yeah, you could imagine long slimy tentacles reaching out of the water and grabbing you and dragging you down into the depths, but maybe someone just wants to give you a hug.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
It wants to ‘hug the face’…
It is said that humans have had a similar experience. There were reports of giant squid grabbing sailors out of lifeboats in Newfoundland during WW II.
Octopodes gotta eat but where do they get the clarified butter?
As to grabbing a decapod crustacean, methinks it comes handy when your eight hands can think for themselves. (And having a beak that zincs.)
Fecking hell ,comes to something when a poor crustacean can’t go for a paddle .
I must say that Octopus was quick off the mark ,I suppose you could say he is now
going to Buster Crabb .
Just wait till they finally decide to come up from the depths and take over the galaxy!
All hail our cephalopod overlords!
That’s some David Attenborough level narration to go with it.
Oh, something actually reasonably local to me. (As in less than a day’s drive away). It’s the small ones with the blue rings that humans have to worry about here though.
@8 You must have seen this news item .