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I am unable to comprehend the image in the article :( Can someone point me to a labeled diagram explaining how the mouth passes thru the brain?
by dingo_bat 11y ago
I am unable to comprehend the image in the article :( Can someone point me to a labeled diagram explaining how the mouth passes thru the brain?
- coldpie 11y agoI'm not trying to be snarky, but did you read the text? I had the same problem until I read the text, where it actually spells it out quite clearly.
- dingo_bat 11y agoI did read it. I think that my lack of comfort with English and total lack of knowledge of octopus anatomy has sabotaged my brain.
- baseh 11y agoTLDR; >This section through a young octopus shows the stripey-looking brain between the two advanced camera eyes, surrounding part of the oesophagus (small white centre towards the base of the eyes). Also visible are two of the characteristic arms, with multiple suckers and thick nerves running through them. The strange and seemingly precarious arrangement of the
- ethbro 11y agoI believe the problem is that it's a section of a 3d ring structure wrapped around a cylinder without the accompanying text highlighting that fact.
- dingo_bat 11y agoIs this correct? https://i.imgur.com/1tQcqAB.png https://i.imgur.com/1tQcqAB.png Sorry for being dumb :/
- zardo 11y agoI think the top brain is the digestive system.
- dingo_bat 11y agoAh! Now it makes sense. Thanks!
- BioSciCreative 11y agoBased on what appears to be pattern in the "top brain" I believe it to be some kind of secretion or filtering organ. Based on my reference links above in the reply to bluenose69, I think it is the digestive gland. The stomach is actually much smaller and has a hollow opening at the very "top" of the octopus.