No, really. Watch this astonishing video of a Gonatus Onyx Squid with its brood from Brad Seibel, via Pharyngula. It starts slow, but the wait is worth it. (title heartlessly stolen from Tlonista in Ph‘s comments section; what can I say? It was just lying there, glimmering temptingly)
The Science Pundit adds some useful info in Pharyngula‘s comments section:
When Brad Seibel‘s 2000 paper suggested squids brood, it was called “erroneous.” Years later when Seibel had the opportunity to direct a submersible he captured this footage confirming his hypothesis. Take that, cephalopod traditionalists!
Gruss Gott
Also, gut – ein Post das ich zu Frau Adler und zu den Jungen Adler rekommendieren kann
… aber wenn wir nicht mehr Baum-Oktopodien oder LangPferden haben konnen durfen sollen sein, brauchen wir mehr Kuten Badgeren und Beaveren, bitte, sofort
Tot siens
Grau von Adler
I think I need a few beers to understand this. Heinekens.
Her Grave the Marchioness
Your Grace
Das geDammen und geBlasten – the Germans also don’t seem to understand mein German
I seem to recall that a few years agoin our part of the World, the Anglo-Saxons were dismayed that the Danes were so very good at carrying out Open Heart Surgery (and they economized by not incurring the costs of anaesthetics), but the Danes had a strange inability to understand German (as Anglo-Saxon was then called) …. hence the need to compromize by inventing English
Your obedient servant etc
G E
Thank you. That explains much. As for me, my first language was Walloon, so if you can confine future posts to Dutch and/or French, I should be able to hack my way through it.
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