In an early paper, Lanier wrote of the ability of some octopuses to express fear or anger by changing color.
Parental care is exhibited by some octopuses, in which the female broods over the eggs in the den, and in the argonaut (Argonauta), in which the eggs are carried in a special shell secreted by the female.
According to Kevin Dean, co-owner of the family business, they were asked by the Red Wings organization and the media to supply them with some octopuses for a photo shoot in the leadup to the postseason that year.
Cox, a 45-year-old divorced mother of three, juggled phone calls and patients' charts and cigarettes like some serene octopus, always catching the steering wheel just before the vehicle veered onto the grass.
So I ordered a glass of Belondrade - made by a French couple in Rueda, an hour and a half north of Madrid, from the ancient Verdejo grape - and then some crab and octopus and prawns and some sizzling kidneys and a lamb brochette and black pudding (morcilla) with red peppers and the best, moistest potato omelette I've ever tasted and a few more slices of that glistening ham.
There are five doorways, each with a ghoul of some sort hidden inside, including a ghost, a mummy, an octopus, some googly eyes (get it?), and um…a sinister purple square with a big set of teeth, ready to chomp you.
The next shot shows some purple octopuses lounging around on living room furniture spilled from a moving van. (We can see it, upended, on the ocean floor).
Some examples: octopuses use copper instead of iron in their haemoglobin; the word for "tortoise" in Hungarian means "bowl-frog"; phytoplankton productivity is intimately related to the prevalence of whale shit; there are diatoms in the sea with names such as "the Fathead Congregant" and "the Crucial Pocket-Compass".
