A giant pacific octopus at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall, England, loves his Mr. Potato Head. Loves it so much, he “nuzzles” it with his beak and becomes aggressive when caretakers try to pull it away.
Thanks, Patrick M.
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My cat likes to lick plastic. I blame the habit on a polymer deficiency – I made that condition up. But I don’t think she’s developing romantic feelings for grocery bags.
Before people get all carried away anthropomorphizing a cephalopod (i.e. “nuzzling”), perhaps less intelligent explanations can be offered, such as “Octopodes find plastic to be num-num.”
can the octopus become the official invertebrate of slog? THEY ARE SO COOL
I, for one, welcome our future octopus overlords.
At least he’s getting head for Christmas.
Shta-ta-ta-boom.
This is the sweetest thing ever.
I bet if you put a crab in there Mr. P.H. would be dropped, like, well, a hot potato.
The hell with the crab, @6 – let’s drop Loveschild in there and see what happens.
as much as Cephalopoda kick ass, and they really do, I doubt what it’s is feeling love. Unless love means pulling something so close to you that you never let it go because it gives you an unexplained creepy primeval comfort and also have at the same time the desire and need to suck every ounce of its very essence from its’ being… alright fine, call it love.
All I can see is Mr. Potato Head’s barely suppressed screams behind those white teeth, as time after time his ass is loaded with treats and he’s thrown back to be tentacle-raped for our enjoyment.
::shudder::
href=”http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/12/veined-octopus-uses-tools-coconut-shell.html” target=”_blank”>This story about how octopodes use tools (in this case, coconut shells) only confirmed what I’ve always believed: Octopodes are, by far, the most awesome invertibrates.
I suck at HTML.
@8: I’m sure many other members of the Slogerati find themselves, like me, thinking of their exes when they read your description of love.
Fuck you, slog commenters 1-12! Cephalopods are honorary vertebrates in Europe. They solve puzzles , they recognize human faces, etc. How many of you assholes have even SEEN a human face in the last month or so? I bet these octopi would rock your world! And a tentacle rape is about the closest you all could ever expect to getting laid.