Another cute and friendly little guy
Just a little guy
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
[deleted]5too@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t any joke from that account be an effing joke?
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
For sure, pettings this cute little guy can be the the experience of the rest of your life, same as listen the sound of the sea in a Conoidea
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you put it to your ear, you can hear the sound of yourself screaming.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I love Octopus, but this on is better not to pet. Yes, you can survive a bite, but only if there is an medical aid very near.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Oh man I would love to live in a town called Effing. If only it wasn’t in South Carolina.
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I have good news for you:
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Shame they felt the need to censor the name of the petting zoo.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Well they didn’t want people getting the wrong idea.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah that might be the best of your lifetime as it might be drastically shortened
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I grew up on the East Coast of the United States. MD and FL to be specific. Going to the beach was a regular thing in our household, whether it was the Chesapeake Bay or the Atlantic Ocean somewhere in West Palm Beach. My grandad has a house on the actual bay. Grew up spending every family gathering there. The adults would visit/catch up, and us kids would be in the water. I was NEVER scared of the water.
Then, as an adult, Im sitting at an inprocessing for a base in Okinawa, Japan, and theyre going over local hazards in the region.
I had never heard of the Blue Ringed Octopus before.
And from that moment on, I became terrified of things in the ocean.
My husband always laughs about that story because its rare that they even make it into the waters around Oki, but that genuinely really was the moment that my brain was like “Omg, you have to worry about more than sharks in the ocean.”
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For a while, I lived in Havre de Grace, MD. In that timeframe, I experienced several fourths of July. One of those times, for some reason, my then-girlfriend and I got in a mood to watch horror movies.
We opened Netflix (then our only streaming service) and looked in the horror category, eventually settling on The Bay. We’d never heard of that movie before and selected it pretty much at random.
Turns out that movie is implicitly set in HdG and explicitly on the fourth of July. Kinda freaked us out for a bit.
After that, we looked up movies set in HdG and that’s how I found From Within, a mediocre movie featuring Bruce Willis’ daughter; and also how I found out that House of Cards filmed Kevin Spacey’s home town there.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, as someone who adores horror movies of all styles from pure camp to serious, and as someone who feels hella nostalgia for MD, I thank you for putting The Bay on my radar!
My husband is a super cinephile though, so Im super hell be interested in the others (provided he hasnt already seen them).
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The ocean is beyond beautiful. Spent some time on the shores of NC and VA…
Started studying marine biology due to the oceans vast amount of mystery…Now it’s “The ocean is beyond beautiful and just as deadly.”
EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Started studying marine biology
How were you able to dissect one?!?
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The ocean is indeed beyond beautiful. I’m not a marine biologist, but I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon and truly appreciated it there. A lot of my time was spent just … Admiring the water.
I remember a Jamaican local commenting that she’d seen the ocean around the USA in movies and wouldn’t swim in the ocean around the country based on that.
Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.
Beautiful, though.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So we’re upvoting ads now?
5too@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You might want to Google the blue-ringed octopus…
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I love the Effing petting zoo!
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good god Im dead just watching this
Blue-ringed octopuses are among the world’s most venomous marine animals, carrying enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
These little bastards have an AoE attack?
50MYT@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The bite actually doesn’t kill you, it just shuts down your nervous system so you can’t breath.
People if given cpr immediately (kind of need someone to know it’s what bit you) till it wears off / get on a ventilator will live.
I remember reading about someone who survived. They got but, and a team started doing cpr. The only issue was his eyes were open the entire time on a hot sunny day. So he was blind after the damage the hot sun did.
Shou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not the heavy metal poisom that kills you, it just shuts down your nerve cells from restoring its membrane potsntial.
It’s not corona that causes you to die from suffocation, it’z just the immun response that results in changes to the mitochondria, powerhouses of the cell, and shortness of breath.
It’s not the cancer that kills you, it’s the organ failure!
underwire212@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ah, great to know! I’ll be taking my kids down there for some blue octopus pets 😁
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wears off
I think it is in the duration of hours, rather than minutes before wearing off.
So yes, a team in rotation is required for CPR, or one triathalon participant.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So what you’re saying is I should take a date to see the blue ring octopus. Then I should get stung and tell them to give me CPR for a few hours or I’ll die.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get bitten by that spider that gives you a permanent boner first to make it super awkward.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, at least you won’t be embarrassed for long after she turns you down.
gnutrino@programming.dev 1 year ago
The bite actually doesn’t kill you, it just shuts down your nervous system so you can’t breath.
I feel that’s like saying “getting mauled by a bear doesn’t kill you, it just causes major lacerations so all your blood leaks out”. Technically sure, but it seems like a bit of a pedantic distinction…
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was thinking “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not totally wrong but some things are not so easily treated as with rescue breathing. This is the same problem with any paralytic agent (e.g. botulism) is that the mechanism of death is suffocation since you can’t breathe. But from a rescue standpoint its really easy to breathe for someone whereas its not easy to stop multiple lacerations leading to exanguination and I think that is the point they were making is that this could be a survivable event if a rescuer is nearby.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reminds me of people who insisted COVID didn’t kill anyone because it was the symptoms that actually killed people
bisby@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting bit by a venomous snake in Australia and you’re blood starts to disassemble itself. The only counter is antivenom or die. Your blood breaking down is what kills you. And there is no way to separate the bite from that.
Being able to counter the venom in such a simple way is what makes it different. You can logically break it down into steps that are separable.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Hmm, does one also not feel pain during such event? Also what happens in your head during it? Are you conscious or it also just shuts down your brain as whole?
kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
In one episode of Kleo, the assassin used home-made TTX in powder form (gathered from a pufferfish) to neutralise a target and claimed they would be feeling pain during the entire time. Made me wonder as well, considering the nervous system gets shutdown I would assume the ability to feel pain also went away?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If depends on the dose, but yes you can be conscious with respiratory failure due to TTX.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Breathing - famous for being optional for those that would like to live.
Yes, there have only been around 3 people killed by them (largely because they’re shy, aquatic, and somewhat uncommon), and intervention can be made to stop them from killing you, but they’re one of the most toxic animals on the planet, and are unquestionably deadly.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We do have a lot of experience with their toxin though, since so many other animals people like to eat and play with also use TTX like newts(on their skin itself), pufferfish, and sea slugs. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507714/
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m shy, aquatic and uncommon
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
mating behavior
The initiation of physical contact is completely independent from sex, size, or residency status.
However, sperm is only released during sexual interaction with females but not with males,
which indicates that upon copulation, the male can distinguish the difference on whether to inseminate or not.Huh, neat.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean I’d love to see one just maybe not handle one. Also, just how bitey are they really
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That is the thing. They will bite if the feel scared, so it you are competent, relaxed and crazy enough, you may be able to handle one like this. They also have a little beak.
The Venn diagram of venomous and dangerous is not a plain circle.
Cornflake@pawb.social 1 year ago
Once in a lifetime… As in you can do it once.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wouldn’t let kids hold stuff like that tbh.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ohh. Effing is a place!
I always thought… Never mind.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Has the “swim with the box jellies” experience reopened since the accident… and the other accident… and those 3 accidents that happened before that?
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I honestly want to know the story behind this picture. Maybe their venom glands can be removed?
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
There’s also a video of a woman holding one not realizing what it is. "my first reaction was just “pick it up”
Meanwhile, in Mexico, an octopus swam near my brother and I and we both got the fuck out the water like it had turned to lava lmao
tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A fish about a foot long jumped out of the water within arm’s reach of me while swimming at a Florida beach. First thought was what might be hunting that fish. I got out for a while.
WilliamKerman@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
If I remember correctly, the guy holding the octopus had terminal cancer and was traveling around doing dangerous things before he died.
Akuji@leminal.space 1 year ago
I honestly want to know the story behind this picture.
Take it with a grain of salt: I remember reading years ago that the person handling the octopus was suffering from degenerative disease, and losing his fight against liver cancer. So, he wasn’t fazed about the prospect of a fatal bite.
b34k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Petting a blue ring octopus could definitely be a once in a lifetime event!
Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Well they were planning on Effing it, so maybe they were wearing “protection”.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I love the f—ing petting zoo.
crackhead87@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
I didn’t read ‘Effing SC’. I was confused as to why they’re cursing the petting zoo.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Because they brought in blue ringed octopi for casual petting
Seleni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe because they’re trying to get people to pet a blue-ringed octopus?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Once in a lifetime. Probably the crowning achievement
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If not friend, why friend shaped?
Woht24@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You see, it’s not.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
👀
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cool fucking petting zoo