Talk:Octopus

Octopus as metaphor

I think there is little question that the octopus as political metaphor is interesting, long-standing, and well-supported by evidence. Vulgar Army is a blog devoted to examination of this metaphor, and contains dozens of examples of octopus-related propaganda from the last hundred and fifty years. The example at right was published in 1913. I'm not sure this article is the right place for it; maybe a very brief section with a pointer to a standalone article would be more appropriate. —Mark Dominus (talk) 14:15, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Here's one I just happened across on Commons that someone uploaded a few months ago. It is from 1877. —Mark Dominus (talk) 16:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Tentacles

"Due to having numerous tentacles that emanate from a common center, (...)"
As established in the rest of the article, octopuses do not have tentacles, but arms. Someone with the rights please edit. --83.101.83.57 (talk) 12:18, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. mgiganteus1 (talk) 13:14, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Sentence Fix

The sentence: "Unlike vertebrates, the complex motor skills of octopuses are not organized in their brain using an internal somatotopic map of its body, as is the motor system in vertebrates" has a redundancy and lacks a period. I'd fix it myself, but the page is protected. 67.142.165.30 (talk) 22:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Done that, think it's sorted now. Finbob83 (talk) 13:23, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Octopus' brains

This video is under a creative commons license and has good cut-away images of the color-texture changing mechanisms of their skin-cells, as well as anatomical information concerning their brain neurons in their capacity of being convergent yet separate in brain evolution for behavioral plasticity to humans. Anyone wanting to go to work including anything from this video to this article has their work (rewardingly) cut out for them. Nagelfar (talk) 09:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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