{"id":16,"date":"2005-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-03-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T00:00:00","slug":"crafty-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Crafty octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at this octopus. It camoflages itself while it walks around.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two tiny species of tropical octopus have demonstrated a remarkable disappearing trick. They adopt a two-armed \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwalk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that frees up their remaining six limbs to camouflage them as they slink away from trouble.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View movies below the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This one is Octopus aculeatus. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holding six arms up stiffly to look like a clump of algae and walking on the other two:<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"pics\/algae.mpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"260\"><\/embed> <\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/pics\/algae.mpeg\">Download movie (works sometimes when the plugin doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one is Octopus marginatus, it wraps six arms around itself to hide it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shape while walking on two arms:<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"pics\/coconut.mpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"260\"><\/embed> <\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/pics\/coconut.mpeg\">Download movie.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at this octopus. It camoflages itself while it walks around. Two tiny species of tropical octopus have demonstrated a remarkable disappearing trick. They adopt a two-armed \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwalk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that frees up their remaining six limbs to camouflage them as they slink away from trouble. View movies below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}