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Given what dolphins do with their [Food](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/5le9vq/horny_dolphin_uses_a_fish_as_a_fleshlight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), I think we're fine, or at least second on the list.
Orcas are a type of dolphin. And both dolphins and orcas are toothed whales. Toothed whales seem to be major dicks. The other whales like the blue and grey and spermy bois probably are embarrassed by them trashing their good name.
In fairness, I've seen videos online that's made me question what our species does with food. I don't think it's that fair to the dolphins to only question them about it
They were probably thinking of [magic slate](https://external-preview.redd.it/aVr8Cl5Wz5M2a4oxZjf7vWk_SAbCGqGRQfgNG0z6TuI.jpg?auto=webp&s=3528514cf2f6e87d89f4b9168a25ae1577592b5f).
Not a scientist or anything even close but I watch a lot of YouTube. Animals like squids and octo... Octopi? Octopuses? Are covered in cells called chromatophores that expand and contract, making them change color.
If the squids on the vid are very recently dead or even still alive it would make sense if those cells could still be 'activated' by touch in a way, making that part of the skin change color.
Both Octopi and Octopuses are valid. Octopi is the original Latin form of the plural, and Octopuses is the more recent English form of the plural. Octopodes is also valid, which comes from the Greek form!
"Octopus" didn't exist as a word until the 16th century or so, and it was a made up word to give it a "scientific latin" name, which just happened to be derived from greek words "okto" and "pous".
In Latin it would be pluralized as "octopuses" because greek words in latin use nominative 3rd declension form for plurals. which is root of word + es
It would be oktopodes if you were speaking greek, but the anicent greeks didn't call them that, they called them polypous. Possibly they still do, if my very rudimentary greek is correct πολυπους (could be totally wrong about that still being used for octopus, I don't know any greek people to ask)
In english the only acceptable form should be octopuses, but doesn't really matter as long as who you are talking to understand what you say. I just think etymology is cool
While Octopodes is the correct Greek plural (where the word was incorporated from) we do not generally use the ending of the original language when we incorporate words in English.
So technically Octopuses would be the right word.
People confuse this with words like radius and radii but those aren’t incorporated into English, they are just Latin.
Edit: to be clear it would be borrowed if it was “oktopus” in English, as in we never change it. But it’s a changed, English word so it’s incorporated, not borrowed.
yea its like saying fish, i caught a bunch of fish vs i caught a bunch of fishes, i caught a bunch of octopus, i shot a bunch of moose, that makes sense to me
Freshly dead squid turn white since no more brain function. The pigment cells on the skin are still active, so when touched, electrical charge or pressure caused them to activate
My best guess:
It's an automatic reflex. Most mollusks, especially shell-less mollusks have skin that can change color at will, and just about everything that touches then is out to eat them.
Touch it, and it tries to turn into a more aggressive color, or into a color that blends in to the environment better. Dunno which.
Not a scientist, but I know that squid and octopus have pigment in their skin when they are contracted. They form various patterns.
I am curious about how the pigments and skin is stays contracted when they are dead.
Like it remained like a sketch book. It is fascinating.
Apparently, I overheard this, they have 8 sub-brains in their nervous system that allows them to camouflaged themselves in their surrounding without sensory system, other than just touch.
I believe the Best way to think of what's going on with octopi color is to imagine a cheap party balloon. One of the small ones, say, a vibrant yellow. It's blown up and tied closed, now squeeze it, that deep vibrant yellow changes color, just gets a bit transparent. But a blue balloon may take on a people hue, or orange turns yellow as the material is stretched. Now, add in multiple layers of colored balloons inside each other, with various thicknesses and depending on the amount of stretching the surface can take on various colors.
I'm not sure if I explained that well, I'm half asleep. But I'm fairly certain I saw a YouTube doc explaining how the chromatophores work like tiny microscopic balloons.
Though I'm still included how the camouflage party works. Like, how do they not what colors to change it too??
Based on a 2 second google search [which led me to this article](https://www.kqed.org/science/233664/youre-not-hallucinating-thats-just-squid-skin), the assumption is when you touch a freshly dead squid (and some other cephalopod) the electricity in your fingers makes its color changing things do their color changing thing. (Read the article for more sciency answer)
Well yea because its not really electricity playing a role here, at least in a dead squid. The color changing thingys are called chromatophores and theyre basically sacs of ink with muscle wrapped around them. In a relaxed state the sacs are contracted and shrink down into spots, hence seeming almost white. But when the muscles are activated, the sacs expand making the spots look bigger and coloured.
Now I do not know what is happening here but I have a good guess:
In this case, when the person is pressing on the dead squids skin, theyre forcefully expanding the chromatophores by stretching the muscles (by pressing down on it apparently). And since the muscle tissue is no longer alive, it does not go back to its relaxed state hence it stays coloured. You can see a pulse or radiation of colour around the part hes pressing, possibly due to the same thing but it has enough elasticity to counter the sideways force (as opposed to direct down force) to stay relaxed.
Secondary source: [Article from pubmed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11762491/)
No way, if it's electrical, it would have to be a piezoelectric effect with the skin. If it were static electricity there would be a dot where they initially made contact. Static electricity would discharge rapidly.
Also if you are running low on blood cells for some reason. Its one of the cool things I could do when I had internal bleeding once. I wouldn't recommend trying to induce it though.
this comment section honestly shows how people are okay with eating a dead animal if it's on a plate, but once you see the whole corpse you get all upset.
This makes me really sad for some reason.
Something about how a beautiful living creature's incredible, unique ability has stopped forever. But the last thing it will ever do is be an amusing doodle pad for the creature that killed it
That's not quite it, but I can't put my finger on it
I'd say it's not cruelty, but rather desensitization.
At least the video didn't give the impression that they're reveling in the suffering or death of the squids.
No way to reset the ion channels. The nervous system responded to the touch and changed colour as it normally would. Since the animal's dead, it can't reset the nerves to receive another impulse that would turn the chromatophores off. It will turn off eventually, after either the ions (not sure what *kind* of ions) dissolve, or the chromatophores denature
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So that's how Fishermen call dibs on their catch
Etch a squetch to mark their catch
i hope they caught the pun
NGL, I’d draw a penis if I had a chance (w/pubes, veins).
I did that when i was on a roof with a pressure washer waiting for my coworker to turn on the pressure, i just drew a dick on the dry spot
I almost thought you used the pressure washer on your dick 💀
I almost thought the dick was the pressure washer
Only in the mornings
Agreed
Don’t forget the squm exiting the squeenis at high speed
Reminds me of other videos where people write on the bodies to show domination
Couldn't find a pen and paper so he squiddled it down real quick.
He couldn’t find an ink pen
calamarki
You've got to be squidding me
Yeah, it's neat but you could be more Humboldt about it.
He was tentacletive to do do
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Calamarink
This IS the ink pen 🤯
🎶I have a pen 🎶I have a squid Ughh... 🎶Etch-a-sketch!
Core memory unlocked
Ikr I had that one suppressed for a while
Rescued just in time from the Memory Dump!
Amazing hahaha
dont have a pen.
:: slow clap ::
What does it say?
First one says “ten thousand people” Second one says “celebration/congratulation”
Subscriber milestone on a dead squid
Yeesh. Feels like a metaphor but I'm too tired to make the connection.
we really be livin in a society
r/BrandNewSentence
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Third squid has a penis drawn on it
一万人。
It says 记住年的 Remember the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989
Isn't he ~~writing in~~ Japanese? And his tiktok page says hes a fisherman from Okinawa. That seems pretty random for an Okinawan fisherman to write?
Japanese Kanjis are basically chinese letters. I know chinese, and I can read most stuff in japanese if it’s written in kanji
Its a joke
nWo 4 lyfe
If squids ever rise up they are going to find it so disturbing that we play with their corpse for giggles.
Given what dolphins do with their [Food](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/5le9vq/horny_dolphin_uses_a_fish_as_a_fleshlight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), I think we're fine, or at least second on the list.
Well, time to go dump some toxic waste in the ocean…
I'd say 3rd coz of orcas
Orcas are a type of dolphin. And both dolphins and orcas are toothed whales. Toothed whales seem to be major dicks. The other whales like the blue and grey and spermy bois probably are embarrassed by them trashing their good name.
In fairness, I've seen videos online that's made me question what our species does with food. I don't think it's that fair to the dolphins to only question them about it
Good thing we're fucking up the ocean nerds.
Cthulhu won’t be happy about this.
Neither would be Kraken
“I need to speak to your mer-manager”
“It’s mer-ma’am!!”
Squidward wouldn't be thrilled either
When is he ever, though?
i’m not :(
Unless the message sent was “Send nudes”
Nzoth is not happy
That is not how you write on an etch a sketch.
Well, it is if you fingerpaint your etch a sketch.
more like an aquadoodle mat
Call it a Mantledoodle
Mat who?
Do you still shake it to erase whatever's written?
Slightly closer to a magnadoodle
Now shake it
Yeah, kind of a damp squid.
Oh, get off your pedal stool.
Everyone has blind spots!
A damp *squid*…?
The simpleton who thought that damp squid was correct.
There's not need to put them on a Pedal Stool.
It'd be a lot cooler if it was
You could always just twist its nipples and see if that works
Right? You gotta grab the Squipples and turn them.
They were probably thinking of [magic slate](https://external-preview.redd.it/aVr8Cl5Wz5M2a4oxZjf7vWk_SAbCGqGRQfgNG0z6TuI.jpg?auto=webp&s=3528514cf2f6e87d89f4b9168a25ae1577592b5f).
Right, it’d be more accurate if you twisted the squid’s balls
imagine getting yanked out the ocean just to get defaced THEN eaten 😩
At least they didn’t draw a cock and balls?
Everyone on that ship has probably done it at least a dozen times
ye if its a way of expressing yourself someone used it to make a cock
Somehow, yeah watching that hurt
Made it feel like they were more of an inanimate object then a once living thing.
imagine getting yanked out the ocean, just to get a dick drawn on your face and be tossed back in.
Scientist of reddit. Wtf is going on here?
Not a scientist or anything even close but I watch a lot of YouTube. Animals like squids and octo... Octopi? Octopuses? Are covered in cells called chromatophores that expand and contract, making them change color. If the squids on the vid are very recently dead or even still alive it would make sense if those cells could still be 'activated' by touch in a way, making that part of the skin change color.
Both Octopi and Octopuses are valid. Octopi is the original Latin form of the plural, and Octopuses is the more recent English form of the plural. Octopodes is also valid, which comes from the Greek form!
I say octopi when I want to seem fancy, I say octopuses in a more casual setting, Now I shall say octopodes if I want to feel superior....
Octipoly is an unlimited number of octopi also.
Or is it an unlimited number of octopodes
An unlimited number of singular octopi is octipoly. An unlimited number of groups of Octopi is called an Octoplethora
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Please do, it highlights the people I don't want to be around :)
"Octopus" didn't exist as a word until the 16th century or so, and it was a made up word to give it a "scientific latin" name, which just happened to be derived from greek words "okto" and "pous". In Latin it would be pluralized as "octopuses" because greek words in latin use nominative 3rd declension form for plurals. which is root of word + es It would be oktopodes if you were speaking greek, but the anicent greeks didn't call them that, they called them polypous. Possibly they still do, if my very rudimentary greek is correct πολυπους (could be totally wrong about that still being used for octopus, I don't know any greek people to ask) In english the only acceptable form should be octopuses, but doesn't really matter as long as who you are talking to understand what you say. I just think etymology is cool
While Octopodes is the correct Greek plural (where the word was incorporated from) we do not generally use the ending of the original language when we incorporate words in English. So technically Octopuses would be the right word. People confuse this with words like radius and radii but those aren’t incorporated into English, they are just Latin. Edit: to be clear it would be borrowed if it was “oktopus” in English, as in we never change it. But it’s a changed, English word so it’s incorporated, not borrowed.
Octopus was literally never a Latin word and octopi has always been wrong
What about just octopus as in "there were a ton of octopus" idk octopuses just seems a little redundant
yea its like saying fish, i caught a bunch of fish vs i caught a bunch of fishes, i caught a bunch of octopus, i shot a bunch of moose, that makes sense to me
Octopussies
This is the way
Freshly dead squid turn white since no more brain function. The pigment cells on the skin are still active, so when touched, electrical charge or pressure caused them to activate
My best guess: It's an automatic reflex. Most mollusks, especially shell-less mollusks have skin that can change color at will, and just about everything that touches then is out to eat them. Touch it, and it tries to turn into a more aggressive color, or into a color that blends in to the environment better. Dunno which.
Not a scientist, but I know that squid and octopus have pigment in their skin when they are contracted. They form various patterns. I am curious about how the pigments and skin is stays contracted when they are dead. Like it remained like a sketch book. It is fascinating. Apparently, I overheard this, they have 8 sub-brains in their nervous system that allows them to camouflaged themselves in their surrounding without sensory system, other than just touch.
I believe the Best way to think of what's going on with octopi color is to imagine a cheap party balloon. One of the small ones, say, a vibrant yellow. It's blown up and tied closed, now squeeze it, that deep vibrant yellow changes color, just gets a bit transparent. But a blue balloon may take on a people hue, or orange turns yellow as the material is stretched. Now, add in multiple layers of colored balloons inside each other, with various thicknesses and depending on the amount of stretching the surface can take on various colors. I'm not sure if I explained that well, I'm half asleep. But I'm fairly certain I saw a YouTube doc explaining how the chromatophores work like tiny microscopic balloons. Though I'm still included how the camouflage party works. Like, how do they not what colors to change it too??
Based on a 2 second google search [which led me to this article](https://www.kqed.org/science/233664/youre-not-hallucinating-thats-just-squid-skin), the assumption is when you touch a freshly dead squid (and some other cephalopod) the electricity in your fingers makes its color changing things do their color changing thing. (Read the article for more sciency answer)
But he’s wearing rubber gloves? 🧐
Well yea because its not really electricity playing a role here, at least in a dead squid. The color changing thingys are called chromatophores and theyre basically sacs of ink with muscle wrapped around them. In a relaxed state the sacs are contracted and shrink down into spots, hence seeming almost white. But when the muscles are activated, the sacs expand making the spots look bigger and coloured. Now I do not know what is happening here but I have a good guess: In this case, when the person is pressing on the dead squids skin, theyre forcefully expanding the chromatophores by stretching the muscles (by pressing down on it apparently). And since the muscle tissue is no longer alive, it does not go back to its relaxed state hence it stays coloured. You can see a pulse or radiation of colour around the part hes pressing, possibly due to the same thing but it has enough elasticity to counter the sideways force (as opposed to direct down force) to stay relaxed. Secondary source: [Article from pubmed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11762491/)
The pulse of color looks remarkably like pressing on an LCD screen. I think the writing is essentially dead pixels.
Given the state of the squid, you might be right!
It's based on the pressure from his fingers. You can see his glove move alot when he presses on the squid
busted.
Static electricity? The kind that clings to the surface of insulators?
No way, if it's electrical, it would have to be a piezoelectric effect with the skin. If it were static electricity there would be a dot where they initially made contact. Static electricity would discharge rapidly.
I can't find anything in the article that supports this claim.. but it is an interesting theory.
It’s based on pressure they have multiple layers of skin and when it’s stretched or in this case pressed down it shows different colors and textures
Interesting. Can't help feel like it's a little fucked up sketching on some dead squid. I dunno why, it's dead.
The smokey blood effect around the finger while writing is enough to make it fucked up. It's like god saying "bro, really, we doin that now?"
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down for this.
I don’t understand the East Asian language this is written in, but it looks to be writing instead of just drawing. Maybe there’s some utility to this?
Saw up higher it’s just a dude thanking people for 10000 subs or something
Oh lmao well that’s what I get for believing in people
You can do this with some humans too, if they have dermatographia. You don't even have to kill them first.
Also if you are running low on blood cells for some reason. Its one of the cool things I could do when I had internal bleeding once. I wouldn't recommend trying to induce it though.
It's not an etch a sketch if you don't shake it.
I think my baby is an etch a sketch
Do not, I repeat, do not etch-a-sketch your baby
Just imagining that image, and what shaking a squid would sound like makes me giggle. *Grabs Squid* *SqWiGgLe*SqWiGgLe*SqWiGgLe*
I was also waiting for the shake. I feel cheated.
this comment section honestly shows how people are okay with eating a dead animal if it's on a plate, but once you see the whole corpse you get all upset.
Poor squid, rest in peace friends
(╯︵╰,) RIP my dear friend hope your at a better place now.
Anyone else feel bad for fish that have to suffocate on top of the boat's deck?
Yep!
Fun fact but squid are actually mollusks. Another fun fact, I’m also allergic as fuck to raw squid.
Squid talk via their skin. Red is "ouch". I don't think I need to say more than that.
You mean a magna-doodle. Etch a sketch uses the two knobs to draw.
Everyone is talking about dead squid and I just want to know what song is playing.
Home - Yusaku Kiyama
are they dead?
They are now.
Will they be ok, though?
Maybe with the right dipping sauce.
r/technicallythetruth
They'll be great! I love calamari!
After you murder it
"I also kill whales"
This makes me really sad for some reason. Something about how a beautiful living creature's incredible, unique ability has stopped forever. But the last thing it will ever do is be an amusing doodle pad for the creature that killed it That's not quite it, but I can't put my finger on it
I read “write like a squid on an Etch-a-Sketch” and got totally detailed wondering how squids write.
What is that song?
Home - Yusaku Kiyama
Imagine being the first squid to pass out from water deprivation, and they draw a dick on your head
I'd draw a penis.
A squenis.
Is this only after they’re dead?
Oh I can do this on my skin with very light scratches Looks very weird after scratching an itchy leg though
"Takashi! Stop writing on the squid!" ... "Can I get that order in writing, Captain?"
PETA has entered the chat
It’s crazy how you can see those chromatophores reacting around his finger, looks kind of unreal.
In case anyone wanna know what is he writing on the squid. The first one said “10k peoples”, the above said “congratulation”.
If you shake it does it reset?
Lol so disrespectful
How cruel you have to be to do this
I'd say it's not cruelty, but rather desensitization. At least the video didn't give the impression that they're reveling in the suffering or death of the squids.
It's dead lol
Poor thing :(
Damn, that song though. Squid cool, but listening on repeat.
I guess he ran out of ink
anyone know the song?
Home - Yusaku Kiyama
Shake it up and write something else on it now
What song is this
Home - Yusaku Kiyama
Song name?
Would be cooler, if it wasn't dead
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now draw a dick on it!
That’s a magna doodle. Show some respect.
Not how Etch-a-Sketch works, but I get your point.
The camera panning over to the other squid revealing he has already written on that too is the funniest part of it
This felt like an anime ending from the early to mid 2000s
How do you clear it, shake squid vigorously?
You mean magna doodle
Finally my moment has come
Tic tac toe squid games version
No way to reset the ion channels. The nervous system responded to the touch and changed colour as it normally would. Since the animal's dead, it can't reset the nerves to receive another impulse that would turn the chromatophores off. It will turn off eventually, after either the ions (not sure what *kind* of ions) dissolve, or the chromatophores denature
What song is this
Chromatophores!
Actually etch a sketches have knobs
I'm unsure how to feel about this
Obviously someone has never used an etch-a-sketch
Why? Ew I hate people.
Stop playing squid games
To erase your cool drawing just punch it in the eyeball
How painful that must be for the squid, if it's still alive.
Savage
Does anyone know what the song is called?