• @[email protected]English
    89•1 month ago

    I like this poem
    its tone and rhyme
    it show us squid
    not see much time
    science fun
    it help us dream
    so pls keep posting
    the science meme

  • @[email protected]English
    53•1 month ago

    That’s probably an octopus or maybe a cuttlefish but not a squid.

    Squid can’t be kept captive they die within a day or two. And only octopus have the flexibility to change into “a rock” and can be kept as pets.

    But very slight chance its a cuttlefish because I can’t see very well if its completely changed shape or not in pic 2.

    Source: I worked in a lab studying octopus and cuttlefish

    • @TexasDrunkEnglish
      15•1 month ago

      Do you know why squid died in captivity?

      • @[email protected]English
        39•1 month ago

        They move very quickly. They tend to quickly kill themselves by bumping their heads into aquarium walls.

        If they don’t die from bleeding, trauma, or infection, or stress, they tend to die pretty quickly from asphyxiation. As whenever they bump into the wall, they get suprised, and spray ink. In an aquarium, the ink stagnates and blocks them from breathing properly.

        • Ricky RigatoniEnglish
          20•1 month ago

          world’s dumbest cephalopod inks itself and chokes to death. more at 11.

          • GloomyEnglish
            9•1 month ago

            World’s crulest animal puts other animals in captivity and then calls them dumb for showing their natural behaviour in a completely alien envirment. More at 11.

            • @RaspberryJamEnglish
              21•1 month ago

              They want to sign up for your cephalopod fact subscription service! 😄

              • @[email protected]English
                13•1 month ago

                Hahhaha. Cephs are so weird and interesting. I was only an intern and didn’t end up going far into biology, but it was certainly fascinating.

                I want to keep a pet octopus bimaculous once I have the money.

  • @datelmd5sumEnglish
    10•1 month ago

    Yesterday there was a spider walking on my floor. I picked it up with a piece of paper and I was worried it would start running around all spider like and touch me. Instead, it went into a spider version of the fetal position and was like “eww human don’t touch me!”