Sentences with phrase «octopus at»

In one of the best animal escape stories ever, the common New Zealand octopus at the National Aquarium of New Zealand was apparently thinking on his feet when the lid to his tank was left ajar.

When Shimabuku caught an octopus at Akashi and took it on a tour of Tokyo, was he thinking of Joseph Beuys» performance «How to Explain Pictures of a Dead Hare»?

We're using this particular clay so we can paint our octopus at the end.

From the fresh morning pastries to the grilled octopus at night!

Sneakers serves up some of the best breakfast dishes in town but if you're feeling more adventurous, you'll want to try the octopus at Misery Loves Co..

Three - year - old Pandora, a giant Pacific octopus at the Seattle Aquarium, weighs about 45 pounds.

My son has already sampled octopus at a sushi restaurant, so he was familiar with it.

We may also see leopard sharks and playfull octopuses at the pinnacle, which is overgrown with lots of smaller yellow softcorals.

Not exact matches

These kind of doers, who try with octopus arms to complete several tasks at once, come up short.

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

I had an appetizer of grilled baby octopus with kalamata olives at Bistro Campagne in Lincoln Square in Chicago.

The smash - hit menu item at Wynwood landmark Coyo Taco is this octopus burrito, which comes with rice, beans, pico de gallo, queso, crema and fried octopus.

At his new Italian trattoria in Jersey City, Carrino Provisions, Talde puts his own distinctive spin on puttanesca, the salty pasta dish sauce filled with olives, capers and garlic, by adding slow - simmered octopus and finishing it with an infused beef butter.

I was on a seafood binge at first, dining on grilled octopus and Loup de Mer (wolf of the sea = seabass) at Milos, here, a Greek seafood place on W. 55th.

Spotted at: The Progress in San Francisco with polpette of rabbit and pork and blood orange / Milk Glass Mrkt in Portland, OR, with blood orange zest and herb blossoms / Liholiho in San Francisco with roasted octopus, curried raisins, butterball potatoes.

We started off pairing refreshing cocktails with unique seafood dishes like tender octopus carpaccio at the Japanese - inspired raw bar Other Mama.

Chef Jesse Houston's nautical takeover (complete with a mural of an octopus) of a former elementary school has become a hangout for Fondren District locals, who sit at the long bar, slurping down $ 1 oysters on the half shell during happy hour and sipping one of the 30 beers on tap.

Grilling adds smokiness and a little crunchy texture to this delicious appetizer and reminds me of one of my favorite octopus dishes at Mediterranean restaurants.

I went diving at night and saw octopus and squid.

They looked at me in disbelief for a moment and then the Pastor's wife came to my rescue, by stating she one told a table full of parishioners how she wanted to play with an octopus's tentacles, but It came out «testicles.»

Admiral Ackbar is an elderly octopus dude who evidently came out of retirement as leader of the Rebel fleet to stand at consoles behind General Leia and push buttons that aren't attached to anything with his weird Robert Altman «Popeye» movie arms.

This octopus really does float, so it's perfect for bubble baths because it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the bathtub!

-LSB-...] Pumping while nursing might seem really hard to do at first, like you'd need as many arms as an octopus to make it happen.

-LSB-...] Up until today, setting up a playard can feel like wrestling with an octopus — getting all the latches in the right positions at exactly the right time can really be a struggle.

The title of Takashi Murakami's exhibition at the MCA made us wonder if the legend of the cannibalistic octopus is true, so we reached out to the Shedd Aquarium to...

In the past, setting up a playard could feel like wrestling with an octopus — getting all the latches in the right positions at exactly the right time can really be a struggle.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would become someone of octopus ability to be able to tamper with all these things at the same time.

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)!

Image of seven - armed octopus courtesy of video by oceancontent Today we're returning to the deep to meet an octopus that, at first glance, hardly seems to earn that eight - limbed designation.Its very name sounds like an oxymoron — or a cautionary tale from a fishing accident.

They lunged forward as if to attack crabs, and cowered from other octopuses, according to Renata Pronk at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues (The Journal of Experimental Biology, DOI: 10.1242 / jeb.040675).

Co-author Jessica Kurth of Pennsylvania State University, who worked with Voight at the Field, summarized their findings, explaining, «In this study, we used skin texture to differentiate deep - sea octopus species that closely resemble one another.

Now Julian Finn, at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has filmed four veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, picking up coconut shells for later use as hiding places.

Electroencephalograms of other invertebrates show spiky static — «like bacon frying,» says neurophysiologist Ted Bullock of the University of California at San Diego, who nonetheless found vertebratelike slow waves in octopuses and cuttlefish.

Genetic studies show that mollusk ancestors split from the vertebrates around 1.2 billion years ago, making humans at least as closely related to shrimps, starfish, and earthworms as to octopuses.

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).

«Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be the characteristics of this creature,» the Roman natural historian Claudius Aelianus wrote at the turn of the third century A.D. Today's divers marvel at the elaborate trails the eight - leggers follow along the seafloor, and at their irrepressible curiosity: Instead of fleeing, some octopuses examine divers the way Steve checked me out, tugging at their masks and air regulators.

At last we know why female argonaut octopuses have a shell, and what use they put them to.

In 1992 Graziano Fiorito, a researcher at that lab, announced a bombshell: Octopuses could learn by watching other oOctopuses could learn by watching other octopusesoctopuses.

Researchers at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Austria recently found one more telling indicator: Octopuses, which rely on monocular vision, favor one eye over the other.

Among the colourful crabs, sea stars and translucent post-larval octopuses of Temae Reef, at the island of Moorea, French Polynesia, live these stunning sacoglossan sea slugs (Cyerce nigricans).

At the time I was thinking about the way some cephalopods, such as the mimic octopus, can appear to morph into different objects.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

The team placed electrodes at different locations along the octopuses» arms to measure neural activity.

Another is now adept at retrieving old drink cans and ripping them open with his teeth to get at the small octopuses that hide inside.

«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Anderson says that octopuses will squirt water at objects that annoy them, «but then they blow quite hard.»

Dr. Arcadio Rodaniche, one of the paper's co-authors, was the first to record the species» striking appearance and describe its uncharacteristic behaviors both in the field and in captivity during the 1970s, but his unprecedented observations were so unique that they were largely ignored at the time, leaving the octopus's fascinating behavior unstudied for decades.

The team also observed pairs of octopuses feeding in the unique beak - to - beak position, allowing both male and female to share a meal, and even share the same den for days at a time.

Over this same two - year period, Ross displayed several combinations of male and female octopuses together in a shared exhibit at the Academy's Steinhart Aquarium to observe social interaction and group dynamics.

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.