I knew there’s a flying squid that likes to post memes though

If a squid swimming near the surface is spooked by a predator or a boat, it streamlines into a torpedo shape and fires itself out of the water. At the same time, it splays its eight tentacles into a flat, fan-like pattern in front of its face – some breeds even exude mucus to fill in the spaces, creating a unified, kite-like surface. It also flares a pair of fins near its rear end and – voilà – the squid becomes a living, breathing jet.

  • BougieBirdie
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    1 month ago

    How many tickles does it take to make a squid fly?

    I figure it’s got to be about ten tickles

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      1 month ago

      Wait wait wait…you have no idea how a squid would react if you tickled it. What if it freaked out and bit your nose off? First you need to cautiously do a test tickle

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          1 month ago

          Are you one of the species that rips theirs off and hucks it at the female to prevent being eaten?

          Maybe I’m thinking of an octopus…

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              1 month ago

              Apparently I’ve been misled as the octopus I was thinking of, the argonaut, doesn’t actually have a detachable hectocotylus.

              Zefrank lied to me.

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        1 month ago

        That’s interesting, when I was a kid I remember always hearing that an octopus has eight tentacles and a squid has ten. I suppose ‘limbs’ might have been a more accurate descriptor.

        Oddly, I knew that cuttlefish have a distinction between arms and tentacles. I’m not in biology, but I always thought of them as tiny squid, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they were related.

        If you’re correcting me on the joke, it’s a pun where “ten tickles” sounds like “tentacles.” The number ten is unrelated to the number of limbs - it’s actually usually told about an octopus

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            1 month ago

            So wait, you’re telling me that an octopus doesn’t have tentacles at all?

            My whole entire world (in regards to a small subset of cephalopods) has been turned upside down.