flip a starfish ...

[writerspleasure]

(with 9 arms, no less) wrong side up, and see what happens ...

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moreover, no brain involved.

[ ganked from http://syndicated.livejournal.com/thrillingwonder/245984.html - awesome feed, highly recommended though only sometimes nature-stuff ]

Comments

[grindcore]

looks like a hand giving him the finger at one point, haha

that was pretty cool

[ginasketch]

haha I thought that too.

[kittysaysno]

Bahahaa, yeah. "oh he's MAD."

[sptmbrwind]

I like how the starfish manages to look really inconvenienced by the whole thing. Like your college buddy with the deformity. "Again, guys? Really? But I've showed it to you... I have to study for... All right, fine. There. You happy? I'm leaving now. Morons."

[lemon_m]

My thoughts exactly. The thing's all like, "Oh, what's thi-- oh, not again >:(" and then proceeds to fix itself.

[rahni]

Lol!

[schonste]

Looks like he's been hassled before. He knows what to do, lol.

[bella_cheval]

Hee hee hee!!

[mushroom_maiden]

I do not understand how starfish do shit like this without brains. It... makes my brain hurt.

[mokele]

Well, they have a nervous system, it's just circular and lacks an obvious central processing point. This sequence is actually fairly simple: Detect change in position, flex all arms inwards (just like for feeding), wait for position change, have any tube feet that contact the substrate begin locomotion (which will drag the other arms along until they're back into a normal position).

[dwaleberry]

Fucking Starfish, how do they work?

[mushroom_maiden]

HAHAHAHAHA FUCKING YES. You are officially my favourite person of today. YES.

[dzhef]

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