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Incidentally, if, as per etymology, we consider the tentacles as feet, then the headline is wrong as the Octopodes are technically kicking the fishes.

• declan_roberts 2y ago
  This whole thing is built on lies!
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• johnnyjeans 2y ago
  Technically speaking, Octopuses don't have tentacles at all. Those are arms. The morphology of "Octopus" is actually a really great example case for demonstrating paraconsistent logic.
  • Gravityloss 2y ago
    Hmm so the name must be corrected to be 8-armed in Greek. Oktobratso? Oktooplizo? Oktocheiro?
  • gpderetta 2y ago
    It goes deeper than that! According to wikipedia, the tentacles, or appendages, are indeed called "arms", but they evolved from what in other molluscs is called a "foot"!
    • cacois 2y ago
      It's a house of cards, people!
      • gpderetta 2y ago
        yes, something is ... afoot.
    • kaiken1987 2y ago
      Deeper still, one of those arms on males contains their sexual organs call the hectocotylus.
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