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CaveatRumptor t1_iwdr0i8 wrote
Sadly most of the documentation of her work was lost at sea.
FiendishHawk t1_iwekbpz wrote
Well, that’s appropriate.
balok_fett t1_iwepkln wrote
The article says the shell is used to protect eggs, and also can help with buoyancy
Sp1cyWallstr33tMemes t1_iwf25kb wrote
I totally read “arrogant octopus” at first and I was like damn, I wonder what he did to deserve the title
fuzzybunn t1_iwf3pm7 wrote
I didn't think about it, but you're right! How very poetic.
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Rhodog1234 t1_iwfgfq5 wrote
..and a bit hands(y) I hear. A real drag at dinner parties. /s
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FulmiOnce t1_iwfmaqi wrote
The argonauts wanted to read what she wrote about them :)
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clitorides t1_iwgc3l6 wrote
The_RealAnim8me2 t1_iwgfrmi wrote
There is always a JoCo song:
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CaveatRumptor t1_iwh7ad0 wrote
I suppose whales are a lot like people, some are self aware, and some are clumsy.
spoonbound t1_iwhpyfa wrote
It's not a shell, it's a mineral egg purse! You know, like those eggpurses containing chicken eggs.
The_RealAnim8me2 t1_iwhrz8j wrote
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhvrcf wrote
The song to which you gave a link has a narrator who speaks in the person of a whale.
The_RealAnim8me2 t1_iwhw3ln wrote
Uhm… no. It’s a giant squid. “I got pretty nice arms, but I hate my beak”
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhwonz wrote
Could be. I thought he was going in and out of persona. He has a large nose, judging from his pic. Nonetheless it no doubt equally holds true that some cephalopods must be clumsy and some not.
The_RealAnim8me2 t1_iwhwvw6 wrote
JoCo literally explains it’s about a giant squid with self esteem issues
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhx57d wrote
Okay. This is the first time I have heard of this singer and I only heard the song once. I trust your expertise.
The_RealAnim8me2 t1_iwhxc44 wrote
Oh man! Check out his catalog. He has great stuff and most has a bit of a nerdy bent. The man has a song about the Mandelbrot set!
CaveatRumptor t1_iwhxhp3 wrote
Ah yes, mathematical hallucinogen.
willthefreeman t1_iwicr41 wrote
So how do they move? Their lil jet?
marketrent OP t1_iwdflb7 wrote
Excerpt:
>The argonaut octopus, of the family Argonautidae, belongs to a group of pale pink-spotted octopuses. Unlike the heroes that sailed the Argo, these octopuses are known for traversing the open ocean by way of a delicate, curved, creamy white vessel—an external casing, often referred to as a “shell,” that gave them their common nickname, the “paper nautilus.”
>These creatures baffled naturalists and philosophers for two millennia, even fooling Aristotle, who believed that they used their large pair of webbed dorsal arms as “a sail” to catch the briny breeze and floated across the ocean’s surface like paper boats.
>“It uses [the thin webs], when a breeze is blowing, for a sail, and lets down some of its feelers alongside as rudder-oars,” Aristotle wrote of the paper nautilus.
>These myths carried weight for centuries, even among naturalists in the 19th century.
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>It wasn’t until the early 1830s when self-taught French naturalist, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began researching the Argonauta argo, or the greater argonaut, that we learned the true origins of their “shells.”
>In the 1800s, most scientists believed that the shell was made by another animal—that argonauts lived in them the same way that a hermit crab will go find a snail shell or a mollusk shell to live in, Finn says. Once the octopus grew too large for the shell, it would abandon the shelter and either search, steal, or kill the original inhabitant for a larger shell.
>But, Jeanne Villepreux-Power sided with the opposite side of the debate: The argonauts were the builders of their cases.
Lauren J. Young, June 20, 2018