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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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] 32 points 2 months ago

🫢

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Are you going to be the new Schnoodle?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aww, I miss Schnoodle πŸ™

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Possibly one of only three things I miss about Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Schnoodle is not dead so long as they live in the hearts of men!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

True! They're still back at the other place though, the shit zone..

They once wrote one of their poems about my cat and I felt very honored 😁❀️

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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 β€œa 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you know why squid died in captivity?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Predator music starts

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Subscribe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They want to sign up for your cephalopod fact subscription service! πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I miss Sprog from Reddit. I always loved their poems. πŸ₯²

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I miss Schnoodle (Schnoodle-doodle-doo, maybe?). Fresh hits like this in /aww…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I knew there was another one! Yes, I miss Schnoodle too!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

shittywatercolour will always hold my heart

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This is very good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months 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!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This really needs a beat, I can hear the Euro banger in my head