If you get a chance to see this 1 hour 25 minute documentary, see it. The underwater photography is fantastic, and the story - about a photographer and his interaction with an octopus vulgaris (common octopus) is touching and insightful. A bit sad at the end.
Does he have a garden?
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on April 21, 2021, 04:36:37 PM
If you get a chance to see this 1 hour 25 minute documentary, see it. The underwater photography is fantastic, and the story - about a photographer and his interaction with an octopus vulgaris (common octopus) is touching and insightful. A bit sad at the end.
Sounds interesting. Octopuses...octopi?...are fascinating creatures. Such primitive brains yet they do so much with it.
Quote from: No one on April 21, 2021, 04:43:32 PM
Does he have a garden?
Sort of - kelp and coral are the main attractions. (I think the song refers to a graveyard???) The octopus also made herself a completely enclosed shell armor plating to ward off a small shark, and then attached herself to the shark's back so the shark couldn't attack. It was amazing.
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Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 21, 2021, 04:57:17 PM
... Octopuses...octopi?...
It's
octopuses as the pus part of the word is of Greek origin. Only Latin 2nd declension nominative nouns which end in "us" take the plural ending of "i". Here endeth the lesson.
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It is an excellent programme. Very well worth a watch.
Quote from: Tank on April 22, 2021, 10:38:25 AM
It is an excellent programme. Very well worth a watch.
I quite agree, a really excellent program
Quote from: Bluenose on April 22, 2021, 03:55:01 AM
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Quote from: xSilverPhinx on April 21, 2021, 04:57:17 PM
... Octopuses...octopi?...
It's octopuses as the pus part of the word is of Greek origin. Only Latin 2nd declension nominative nouns which end in "us" take the plural ending of "i". Here endeth the lesson.
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Ah, ok ;D