Sentences with phrase «octopus does»

The prognosis for the momma octopus doesn't look as good.

This octopus doesn't mind getting out of the water if it means the possibility of finding a meal or a better spot in the tide pool.

The larger pacific striped octopus does something quite different: The males and females stay intertwined, beak - to - beak, as if kissing.

Unlike most octopuses, the larger Pacific striped octopus does not practice sexual cannibalism.

That was simple: An octopus doesn't much resemble an orangutan, so they are correctly not classified together.

The team found that the octopuses did not behave consistently from day to day — they might be bold one day and shy the next, for instance.

«Signaling is well - documented in cuttlefish and squids,» Scheel said, «so in that way it isn't really surprising to suggest that octopuses do the same thing.»

This year, that octopus did not do as well as it hoped, but at least its video games showed signs of growth.

Octopuses do not have blind spots in their vision; the structure of their retina and optic nerves is such that, unlike in the eyes of vertebrates, the nerves do not block light or otherwise disrupt the continuity of the retina.

Not exact matches

Or was it an octopus, which is smart and crafty yet hides and doesn't have to be in the spotlight?

I would similarly argue that humans, jellyfish, and octopi probably didn't follow the same evolutionary path in assembling their Ferrari.

As proof they do not share a common ancestor it is known that in the octopus the eye develops from the epidermal layer then works it's way in to the nervous system.

or in between the leg and head if it feels tender and inserts with no trouble, octopus is done!

I don't know Poppy, I could see us / you in a wetsuit, spear gun in hand, foraging for octopi and seaweed.

After octopus is done, remove from water and place on a plate.

After the octopus is done, remove it from the water and pre-heat a skillet over medium heat.

Boil for 20 — 30 minutes, or until octopus is done.

And don't worry about salting the water, octopus is salty like an oyster.

Many years later Frank — one of the owners of Gullo Specialty Foods — wanted to follow his passion for octopus and started doing research on how to bring the product he loved such much to the US for everyone to enjoy.

After a week of delicious eating and drinking, and yes now that we're all older we've upgraded from PBRs and buffalo wings to fancy martinis and grilled octopus salads (though we did manage to squeeze in a few cheap beers and pub food) it's time to get back into the kitchen.

He didn't do his famous fried chicken, but we had no complaints after trying his grilled octopus — and most importantly, the burnt - lemon purée alongside it.

I don't have anyone that needs / wants a $ 250 octopus shaped cake stand or a $ 500 dish rack.

They do a very good job, especially Busquets — who they refer to as the octopus sometimes — of reading your passing lane and turning you over in your own half.

The octopus clearly didn't phase Tuukka, who pitched a shutout against the Wings.

I don't see a comparison to Bridges, especially since Bridges has octopus arms and a 3 point shot.

Does your 2 - year - old eat octopus?

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.

Did you know my kid likes octopus carpaccio with balsamic vinegar and sea salt?

Similar hyperbole arises in articles about dogs» alleged ability to do calculus and spiders» knowledge of geodesics (not to mention octopuses» knowledge of soccer).

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.

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).

The first sea - floor lab to test the effects of CO2 (top) on deep - sea animals didn't kill these caged eelpouts and an octopus, but sea urchins died and their spines dissolved (bottom, before and after

If that doesn't work, he says, the octopus might attack the object.

That negative result, however, didn't stop researchers from laughing in delight at the sight of a scientist splashing away with the toy octopus — or sending out numerous tweets and e-mails about Kim's droll and often hilarious talk.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

This breathtaking octopus, first discovered a few years ago, does a pinwheel - like somersault in the waters of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

«Octopuses and mammals do not share a recent common ancestor but have independently come up with the same solution to a common problem,» Thompson says.

In doing so, we discovered this fascinating congregation of brooding octopuses,» says Wheat, a geochemist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

It doesn't make sense for deep - sea octopuses to brood eggs in warm water like this: it's suicide.

But the doctrines of the embodied cognition movement do not really fit well with the strangeness of the octopus's way of being.

But the fact that octopuses can so quickly do this with humans — both with scuba mask and without — is impressive.

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

The nervous systems in each arm also include loops in the neurons (recurrent connections, in the jargon) that may give the arm a simple form of short - term memory, although it is not known what this system does for the octopus.

This ability makes sense if an animal is social or monogamous, but octopuses are not monogamous, have haphazard sex lives and do not seem to be very social.

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.

It took a long while for the octopuses to learn to do this, but in the end, nearly all the animals tested succeeded.

Eating live octopus can be dangerous, but some dolphins in Australian waters have figured out how to do it safely, Sarah Zielinski reported in «How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying» for the Wild Things blog (SN Online: 4/25/17).

Given all this, the way to work out how smart octopuses are is to look at what they can do.

Unlike arms and legs that rely on bones to behave in a familiar way, like classical levers, tongues operate bonelessly like the tentacles of an octopus, with the motion of any lone muscle depending on the activity of surrounding muscles in a complex manner that researchers do not yet fully grasp.