They were very coy about letting us see its central body mass, so I couldn't tell. We got to see the underside of the limbs with the huge suckers, but I don't know enough about sucker morphology to distinguish octopods from squids. I got the impression of octopus.
Hey, I saw an Architeuthis in the Smithsonian - they had it in a big closed vat of formilyn or something and it looked pretty beat up. Sure was big, though.
I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism.
That does sound odd, when you put it like that. :) But I figure everyone has seen TV shows with these beasties in them, so they have a mental movie of octopus movement in the basement of their head somewhere, and if you want to suggest octopus, you would draw from the movie like the animators did here. (I personally enjoyed that Sparrow, as the monster rears up to eat him, unsheaths his sword, steps up to the giant undulating sets of radula and meets his death with, "Hello, Beastie.")
Plus I was personally fascinated with the idea of intelligence that's not organized like mammalian intelligence, with a less severe centralization? Cephalopod arms, if detacted, will attempt to move prey to where the mouth would be if it were still attached. That arms might have some autonomy is amazing. A socialist body. I have watched my own hands in conflict, but it was a result of disagreement at the brain level, not further out. Really super cool, the octopus. I'm sure that's how one got into the smutty story.
Hey, I saw an Architeuthis in the Smithsonian - they had it in a big closed vat of formilyn or something and it looked pretty beat up. Sure was big, though.
I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism.
That does sound odd, when you put it like that. :) But I figure everyone has seen TV shows with these beasties in them, so they have a mental movie of octopus movement in the basement of their head somewhere, and if you want to suggest octopus, you would draw from the movie like the animators did here. (I personally enjoyed that Sparrow, as the monster rears up to eat him, unsheaths his sword, steps up to the giant undulating sets of radula and meets his death with, "Hello, Beastie.")
Plus I was personally fascinated with the idea of intelligence that's not organized like mammalian intelligence, with a less severe centralization? Cephalopod arms, if detacted, will attempt to move prey to where the mouth would be if it were still attached. That arms might have some autonomy is amazing. A socialist body. I have watched my own hands in conflict, but it was a result of disagreement at the brain level, not further out. Really super cool, the octopus. I'm sure that's how one got into the smutty story.
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Ah, but you forget Dr. Strangelove. ;)
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