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Tree Octopus
Today ,in one of the biology class I'm taking, the professor gave us an assignment on this organism he had recently heard about. The idea of a terrestrial octopus totally caught me off-gaurd. I thought this creature might be of interest to the OOT community. Has anyone else heard of these before?
Link: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ |
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I think either you got leveled by your teacher or I'm getting leveled right now, but I'm guessing the former.
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I'll be honest with you, if I ever stumble upon one of those in a tree I'm gonna freak out.
Very very strange. |
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i have not run into a tree octopus before, but i do have some experience with mountain walruses, one of the other animals of interest linked to on that page. you really gotta look out for them if you are backpacking on the west coast, they are silent and stealthy and will steal all your food at night.
i would like to see a tree octopus some time, but they are obviously very rare. i will keep looking, and as my exotic animal tracking abilities improve, i suspect i will eventually meet one. |
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[ QUOTE ] Save The Mountain Walrus - Another endangered Northwest creature that needs our help. (Original site down, link is to Archive.org mirror) Save The Manhattan Beach Mottled Roach - Save one roach today, that tomorrow we may save millions! Rock Nest Monster - Known only from its rocky nests and porcelean-like eggs, Cryptogorgo petronidus is so endangered that existential environmentalists wonder if it ever existed at all. Giant Palouse Earthworm (Driloleirus americanus) - This threatened earthworm is native to the Palouse prairies of Washington and Idaho. They can grow up to three feet in length, are pinkish-white, and smell of lilies. The Red Crabs of Christmas Island - Once every year, 120 million of these forest crabs migrate en masse from their inland burrows to the sea to spawn. Along the way, over a million are crushed by traffic and many die of dehydration crossing deforested land. The offspring of those that survive then have to contend with super-colonies of yellow crazy ants, introduced to the island by the thoughtless actions of Man. [/ QUOTE ] |
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For the love of god I hope you dont actually believe this is true....
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For the love of god I hope you dont actually believe this is true.... [/ QUOTE ] what are you talking about dude, just because it's something you haven't heard of before doesn't mean it's not real. you think you know everything? you're very egotistical |
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For the love of god I hope you dont actually believe this is true.... [/ QUOTE ] I actually do. My professor is very knowlegable and the website seems credible. Just because you haven't heard of a species before doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And no, this doesn't mean I believe in bigfoot or the lockness monster or most other cryptozoological creatures. I retract my above statement. The more I look around I think my professor and that website are full of [censored]. |
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