Sentences with phrase «when octopus»

When octopus season opens on a new part of the reef every three...

Assassination Classroom Yusei Matsui When an octopus - like creature destroys the moon, lands on Earth, and gives mankind the news that he's going to annihilate us all, the only logical decision is to assassinate him.

It turns out that the blue - green rings are always there, but pouches of skin conceal their iridescence when the octopus is relaxed.

They observed one posture repeatedly — when the octopus would «stand tall,» extending its arms outward and drawing itself upward.

When an octopus pulls in a piece of food, the grasping by the very end of the arm creates two waves of muscle activation, one heading inward from the tip and the other heading outward from the base.

This revealed that, when the octopus reaches out, two waves of muscle contraction travel down the arm in opposite directions.

This lady has guts, and stands up for state rights in an era when the octopus called the general government is intrusive (and at the same time ineffective)!

When the octopus is ready, add to the sauce.

At the same time, the paper also noted that when octopuses are doing well with this task, the arm that is finding the food appears to do its own local exploration as it goes, crawling and feeling around.

When the octopuses feel threatened, they flip the half shells over themselves and hide.

Not exact matches

How probable is it that we would recognize intelligence in some utterly alien form when it takes so much effort even to acknowledge that wolves or octopuses or bees have their own lives and thoughts?

But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»

The best thing I ate in 2010 was a warm octopus salad at Kefi in NYC when I went to visit a friend.

He's only ever eaten baby octopus though, and when he saw these huge octopus tentacles, he was a little put off.

A dim - sum cart circles the room, and when the server asks if you'd like any of the small plates — such as Red Fife brioche with Berkshire sausage, octopus with charred tomatoes, or smoked - beet granita — your answer best be yes.

When simply grilled, squid has similar caloric and fat values to octopus.

When I decided to co-sleep, I discovered that, in reality, co-sleeping is more like trying to sleep while a drunk octopus pees on you and pokes you in the eye.

When standing baby will hear sounds and phrases from their new octopus friend and will be encouraged to play ball!

When the bags eventually sink, it is supposedly the end of the story — but Collins wonders if the same could be happening to this octopus away from our sight.

And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

Researchers believe that when the brood finally hatched, the mother died — a typical fate for new octopus mothers.

That's already starting to happen — when reviewing video footage from the Atlantic, Voight noticed an octopus whose wart pattern didn't match the species in that region.

Cigliano found that California octopuses that were kept together quickly established hierarchies and avoided wasteful, dangerous confrontations; the weaker animals seemed to recognize and yield to the stronger ones, even when the latter were hidden in their dens.

When served clams sealed with steel wire, for example, octopuses deftly switched from prying to drilling.

In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).

An octopus's tentacles can kill a dolphin — or a human — when eaten alive.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or «broken heart syndrome,» occurs when the bottom of the heart balloons into the shape of a pot (a tako - tsubo) used in Japan to trap octopus.

These seals spend months building up their body fat — they feed mainly on fish, but will also eat lobsters and octopus — only to burn it up when they are raising their young.

These trees sent smaller roots down from the lateral roots that, when excavated, resembled tentacles of an octopus.

When he put the pill bottle into a tank with an octopus, the octopus first brought the bottle to its mouth, in case it might be food.

The researchers also looked at whether acidification altered the «boldness» of the crabs, or how long it took them to withdraw into their shells when attacked by a toy octopus held by a scientist.

When the opposite happened and a light octopus approached a darker one, the latter more often stood its ground.

Octopuses have also been found to engage in cannibalism when they have other food options, but there are few other documented examples in the wild.

Little could I have imagined when I started this blog in November 2011 that there would be so much amazing octopus research to cover — and so many wonderful readers.

Philosopher Stefan Linquist of the University of Guelph in Ontario, who once studied octopus behavior, puts it like this: «When you work with fish, they have no idea they are in a tank, somewhere unnatural.

Captive octopuses often try to escape, and when they do, they seem unerringly able to pick the one moment you are not watching them.

You have to realize this when you see octopuses play.»

After two weeks, all the octopuses behaved differently toward the two keepers, confirming that they can distinguish among individual people, even when they wear identical uniforms.

As I mentioned earlier, when you approach an octopus in the wild, in at least some species the octopus sends out one arm to inspect you — behavior that suggests a kind of deliberateness, an action guided by the brain.

When it comes to flexibility, even the most limber among us can't begin to compare with the octopus.

Now veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, have been filmed picking up coconut halves from the seabed to use as hiding places when they feel threatened.

What do you think of when you hear «octopus»?

The Bunbury dolphins eat both octopus and cuttlefish, and those meals appear to be more common in the winter and spring, when waters are cooler, Sprogis notes.

You will notice soon enough when you flying through the bright blue sky accompanied by creatures that look like the love child of an octopus and a flying carpet.

When the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spWhen the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spwhen a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spear.

Each Green Lantern is given a ring which can turn any thought into reality, and when the Corps» best Green Lantern is killed in a battle with the Parallax (a big yellow octopus cloud thing), the ring zips off to Earth and chooses Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as a new Green Lantern, the first human ever to be entered in the ranks of the Corps.

His release sets him on a path to revenge, but first he must discover who locked him up and why, and when he finally unlocks the mystery the secret is even grosser than the scene where he eats a live octopus.

Six years ago a NASA probe brought back samples of alien life, but when it crash - landed the probe «infected» a large swathe of Mexico with seeds that grew into enormous creatures that look like octopi (that's plural for octopus) which walk on land.

When threatened by predators, most octopuses release a thick cloud of black ink, composed of melanin (the same pigment that gives humans their skin and hair color).

So when a storm washes a giant octopus ashore, its tentacles wrapped in fishing line, the boy, his friend, and the other animals see only a fellow creature in need.