Steel Tiger
Senior Master
Now this is just a little strange. Still interesting though.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/03/2263456.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/03/2263456.htm
Sex Secrets of the Giant Squid
- Thread starter Steel Tiger
- Start date
Three hearts? What's normal for squid?
Empty Hands
Senior Master
OP
Steel Tiger
Senior Master
- Thread Starter
- #5
ST, your squid pr0n just isn't working. Got anything more graphic?
'Fraid not. The scientists are only finding the weak ones that have worn themselves out with all that group sex.
A doughnut shaped brain?? Everytime it loses a limb to a Sperm Whale it must say ... "D'OH!"
Group sex huh? I guess when their spouses call they say "Sorry Hunny, I'm all tied up!!"
Three hearts make sense... down in depths where the pressure is simply extreme as you can get... you'd need something to manage pumping the blood through the body against all that pressure.
Blue blood. Yeah figgures... Harvard Law Grads have clingy multiple limbs (called legal assistants) as well. Explains the doughnut shaped brain too... they can only wrap their brains around one thing MONEY!
Group sex huh? I guess when their spouses call they say "Sorry Hunny, I'm all tied up!!"
Three hearts make sense... down in depths where the pressure is simply extreme as you can get... you'd need something to manage pumping the blood through the body against all that pressure.
Blue blood. Yeah figgures... Harvard Law Grads have clingy multiple limbs (called legal assistants) as well. Explains the doughnut shaped brain too... they can only wrap their brains around one thing MONEY!
The doughnut shaped brain is only sorta kinda para the story. If I remember right it goes something like this...
The squids and octopodes (I'm not sure about cuttlefish) have a central brain or at least a central part of the brain that does a lot of the controlling, much of the sensory processing and pretty much all of the higher level stuff. Each arm or tentacle has its own smaller brain. Each of these is connected directly to the central brain and to the two adjacent arms or tentacles. The central brain makes general decisions about what to do and leaves the details about what each arm does to that brain's arm. The brain in the arm can carry out the task and can either communicated with the central brain or recruit the arms to which it is directly connected to complete the action.
It's very cool distributed processing stuff and all facilitated by the very efficient giant axons that cephalopod nervous systems have evolved.
The squids and octopodes (I'm not sure about cuttlefish) have a central brain or at least a central part of the brain that does a lot of the controlling, much of the sensory processing and pretty much all of the higher level stuff. Each arm or tentacle has its own smaller brain. Each of these is connected directly to the central brain and to the two adjacent arms or tentacles. The central brain makes general decisions about what to do and leaves the details about what each arm does to that brain's arm. The brain in the arm can carry out the task and can either communicated with the central brain or recruit the arms to which it is directly connected to complete the action.
It's very cool distributed processing stuff and all facilitated by the very efficient giant axons that cephalopod nervous systems have evolved.
Are you kidding?? Don't apologize, that was bloody brilliant!!
