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The hectocotylus arm of a male octopuses acts as both a reproductive organ to deliver sperm and a sensory organ for mate detection.
Sensory cells in the hectocotylus perform contact-dependent chemosensation of progesterone, a conserved ovarian hormone.
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9652
#OctopusDay #WorldOctopusDay
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Behold the magnificent Glass Octopus, Vitreledonella richardi.
Marine biologists spotted the elusive glass octopus during an expedition by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, off the remote Phoenix Islands, 5,100 km northeast of Sydney in 2021.
The species gets its name from its nearly-transparent body—you can see straight through to the optic nerve, cylindrical eyes and digestive tract.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJeUQohw4D8
https://www.livescience.com/rare-glass-octopus-sighting.html
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2021/07/15/glass-octopus/
#OctopusDay #WorldOctopusDay
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It’s octopus day… do you know where your tentacles are? #OctopusDay #octopus #pulpo https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaigns/sentience/animal-awareness-days/world-octopus-day/
Today, October 8, is (naturally) Octopus Day … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦 (1926)
Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #OctopusDay
Marine life deserves better than to end up on our plates 🐙
📷 Selene Magnolia / We Animals Media
Octopus riding a shark for World Octopus Day!
This is based on the video of a Maori octopus stuck atop a mako shark posted by University of Auckland. It is one of the best things I ever saw.
National Pierogi Day.
#pierogiday #nationalpierogiday #pierogi #pierogies #polish #cannafest #polishfood #pierogiruskie #food #f #daysoftheyear #daysoftheyearofficial #americantouchtagday #nationaldaycalendar #podiatryday #instacalendar #eggday #everydayisaholiday #octopusday #pierogizgrzybami #pierogiztruskawkami #pierogielove #nationalholiday #vetnurseday #fry #pierogizjagodami #spices #varenyky #pyrohy #perogy
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/national-pierogi-day/
For World Octopus Day, the Rocktopus is a particularly musical mollusc.
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Zum Weltoktopustag gibt's mit dem Rocktopus eine besonders musikalische Molluske.
#KätToon #Oktopus #Octopusday #Oktopustag #Octopus #rockmusic #badpuns #Rockmusik #schlechteWortwitze
Their life is more important than your dietary preferences 🐙
🎨 Just Comics
3 heart, 8 arm adventurer.
happy #OctopusDay !
#mastoart #octopus
It's October 8 so our latest tentacular stock character - Chesty the Definitely-Not-a-Mimic from our DnD inspired commedia dell'arte parodies - wishes you a happy World Octopus Day!
#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #DnD #parody #Octopus #OctopusDay
Today, October 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #20thcentury #modernism
Marine life deserves better than to end up on our plates 🐙
📷 Selene Magnolia / We Animals Media
Their life is more important than your dietary preferences 🐙
🎨 Just Comics
Habt einen tentakligen #Oktopustag! 🐙
It's the month of #Halloween so we'll look at a #costume from our troupe each day - with today's appropriate for October 8 (World #OctopusDay)!
Discovered randomly at a garage sale near our founder's home in 2007, two colorful tentacle belts were originally made for the Cleveland Museum of Art's Parade the Circle but now appear in many of our #anime parodies and also other other monsters and creatures including our Phlop'Globlen!
October 8 is World Octopus Day! Celebrate with the mutant tentacles of Dalek Skarino transformed into the magical anime girl Sailor Skaro transformed into a giant kaiju monster during our recent parody play "Doctor Who & the Fantastic Fanservice Folly" from Marcon and Cleveland ConCoction!
https://nationaltoday.com/world-octopus-day/
#DoctorWho #TARDIS #Dalek #anime #MagicalGirl #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Marcon #MarconOH #OctopusDay
"We’ve joined forces with 42 groups worldwide in urging the Canary Islands Government to block what would be the world´s first large-scale octopus farm. The plans would see hundreds of thousands of these hyperintelligent beings commercially reared in cramped tanks every year before being slaughtered for food 💔
Let’s #StopOctopusFarming now, tag @PresiCan, and tell them what you think of the plans! 🐙
#InternationalOctopusDay #OctopusDay #worldoctopusday #octopus #animalrights"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyIoo1ooE9Q/