That’s right, this week is officially Octopus Week (in Seattle, anyway)! Biologists at the Seattle Aquarium kicked off the week by releasing a giant Pacific octopus named Tank back into the wild.
What makes Octopi so cool? Well, for a start, they look like aliens. But they’re smart, too. Not as smart as a golden retriever or a cat, but they’re the brainy geeks of invertebrates. They have distinct personalities, participate in ‘play’, and can differentiate between people.
In an experiment done by Roland Anderson, a biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, giant Pacific octopuses would rise to the surface to greet a researcher who had fed them in the past. But when a second researcher approached – one who’d touched them with a bristly stick – they squirted water on him.
Take that, mean guy with a stick!
I propose that all those in the Nerdvana Universe celebrate Octopus Week — go eat some tako at your local sushi bar; throw one on the ice at a Red Wings game; re-read the Sinister Six story arc in Amazing Spider-Man issues #334-339 starring the best Spidey villian ever, Doc Oc.
You know, whatever you think is best.
