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Latest comment posted at 11:51 AM EDT 26/07/07

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  1. Cymro yn byw yma Canada from Canada writes: Unintended consequences the positive kind. Eat your heart out Mr. Bush.
  2. Kurt de Vries from Bundang, Seoul, Korea, Rep. of writes: I hope no one ate the helpful little guy! A pet for life! Or better yet! Set the little octopus free!!!
  3. Tristram Shandy from london ontario, Canada writes: Those octupi are really smart, I saw a documentary about them on TVO (TV Ontario - our equivalent of US PBS) some time ago and they were just amazing.

    The lab where they were, had problems with other species disappearing. Finally they put in infrared (?) cameras, and these showed the octupi getting out of their container, and going down the table, across the floor, up the next table and devouring these other critters. (Sorry I can't be more specific, it has been a while).

    Hopefully they are smarter than humans and will survive global warming.
  4. Greg Calgary from Canada writes: Hey the octopus found it, it should be his.
  5. Lake Rake from United Kingdom writes: The octopus earned his freedom. I hope the fisherman did the right thing and let him go.
  6. Green Jerry from Canada writes: Can I get one of these Octopi to jump into my fridge and find the tzatziki sauce for me? Ooooh, and the lemon juice. Can't have calamari without it.
  7. Kevin Dooley from Canada writes: Green Jerry - calamari is squid, not octopus.
  8. Green Jerry from Canada writes: Kevin Dooley from Canada writes: Green Jerry - calamari is squid, not octopus.

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    It's all tasty rubber. There is room for all of God's creatures on my plate.
  9. Michael Manning from Mississauga, Canada writes: Kurt de Vries from Bundang, Seoul, Korea, Rep. of writes: 'I hope no one ate the helpful little guy! A pet for life!'

    Reminds me of the story of the pig with the wooden leg. It seems it was a brave little pig who, with no thought for itself, dragged each member of the farm family from their burning house. When the farmer was asked why he had a wooden leg the farmer replied, 'A pig like that you don't eat all at once!'
  10. GlynnMhor of Skywall from Canada writes: Confucious Smith from Canada writes:''...Mr. Bush'?
    The story is about an octopus & a treasure find.'

    At least no one has yet tried to blame Harper for cooking and eating the octopus.
  11. Vickky Angstrom from Calgary, Canada writes: It would appear that primates are not the only creatures that use tools.
  12. Megan J from Surrey, B.C., Canada writes: How interesting! What a wonderful find...hope the little guy was set free.
  13. right elbow from SOUTH KOREAN NEIGHBOUR, Canada writes: The octopus has served its purpose. Now, let's feast. Bring it on and start serving the plates. Could we suggest to South Korean government to dedicate/allocated funds on the recent treasure finds to the recent Afghan misfortunes of their medical volunteers killed and in hostage by the Taleban?
  14. OK from Ontario from Toronto, Canada writes: Tristan - I saw the show too. There were crabs in another aquarium in the same room, within eyesight of the aqarium where the Octopusses were. Crabs are Octupi's favorite food. It was acually a low-light TV camera that filmed the Octopus climbing out of its tank, going for a late-night snack, and then returning to it's own tank. ------------ as for the tenticled little invertabrate, I hope he lived, but I doubt it.
  15. Jorly fuster from Canada writes: What I find most disturbing about this article is they stole a plate right out of the tenticles of a small octopus. What has this world come to?
  16. Michael Tripper from Vancouver, Canada writes: I love octopi and I am looking forward to finishing my work so that I can explain to everyone how is it they are so smart.

    Awesome creatures that validate a hypothesis I am writing.

    Leave the little guy alone - I hope he/she continues squishing around the ocean floor.

    peace out
  17. Steve Church from Canada writes: To Mike J. They're not that smart. I just had a couple of his relatives for lunch. They were trying to hide in a glass jar in the fridge. I put them on a plate - looks like only one octo in three is lively enough to try using it for a helmet.
  18. THE LAKEMAN from THE LAKES, Canada writes: I really like these kinds of stories; we learn a bit about our history. This is great!!
  19. Sam Salmon from Vancouver-by-the-Sea, Canada writes: Koreans eat that size of Octopus live/uncooked and squirming-you an be sure that one was eaten too.
  20. Eric B from Ottawa, Canada writes: Tristram Shandy from london ontario: why do you feel the need to explain your reference to TVO to americans?

    `..I saw a documentary about them on TVO (TV Ontario - our equivalent of US PBS) some time ago and ...`

    Last I heard, G&M was a Canadian paper, and most people on these comment boards are Canadians!
  21. F H from Canada writes: So, how's the wee octopus doing? Not eaten, I hope!
  22. john douglas from greedville, Canada writes:
    My biologist friend told me that Octopi are about as far away from humans on the evolutionary tree as possible. Even insects are closer to humans than they are. They are as close are we are going to get to extraterrestrial intelligent life forms.
  23. F H from Canada writes: 'Vickky Angstrom from Calgary, Canada writes: It would appear that primates are not the only creatures that use tools. '
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    True. All kinds of animals use tools. Everything from birds to otters to, now we find out, octopi! It's an amazing world. All kinds of new discoveries about the various beasties on the Earth. Let's hope we leave some of the natural wonders out there for our ancestors to enjoy as well.
  24. Thumb Sucker from Toronto, Canada writes: john douglas from greedville - That si very interedting, can you give me a link to such a tree? I would like to see where it all fits in.
  25. Some Guy from Canada writes: I saw a Jacques Cousteau episode almost 40 years ago where they put a crab in a closed mason jar on the sea floor next to an octopus' den. The octopus came out and tried to get at the tasty treat for quite a few minutes. It eventually turned bright red and returned to its den. About a half hour later it came out again, went straight to the jar, and unscrewed the lid. Apparently they can problem solve as well.
  26. Brigitte Neumann from Halifax, Canada writes: Is anyone going to speak up for the crab in the jar? Ah, the trouble with food chains!
  27. Iain's Opinion from Canada writes: Eric lighten up, I had no idea what TVO is, I'm in BC and believe it or not, Ontariariario is not big on my list. Especially not tv channels.
    As to octopi, I recently saw a picture in a reputable science magazine where an octopus had wrapped all but 2 tentacles around its head/body and was 'walking' on the remainin 2 arms apparently to fool prey into thinking it was something else!
  28. Blind InTheSun from Canada writes: How practical! Now the little beasts of the sea can be served on their own antique serving plates.

    What of the little octopus? Does he get some kind of royalities? Did the fishermen spare his wife and kids?
  29. Jeff Hunt from Toronto, Canada writes: So... What ever happened to the tiny octopus that was clutching an old plate, manoeuvring the disc over its little body in a bid to look as dull and uninteresting to the fisherman as possible? Did the humans treat him with reverence or kill him and eat him?
  30. Out Of Countryman from San Francisco, United States writes: 'Tristram Shandy from london ontario, Canada writes: Those octupi are really smart, I saw a documentary about them on TVO (TV Ontario - our equivalent of US PBS) some time ago and they were just amazing. . .'

    I saw that too . . amazing. It apparently also broke a couple of legs on the bigger crabs in the tank to cast suspicion that the latter were the ones that finished the smaller crabs after a fight. Sneaky buggers !!!
  31. Craig Cooper from Toronto, writes: I once saw an octopus driving a bus. That's how smart they are.
  32. gordon foster from Canada writes: It's amazing that no-one seems interested in the eight-hundred year old celadon porcelain. Korea and its former kingdoms has had advanced manufacturing processes for at least a millenium. Actually I'm not surprised that the service and resource economy minded Canadians show no interest in advanced crafts and skills and are more interested in the curiosity of an octopus doing what octopi do. By the way, I have eaten san nakji (fresh octopus) and it's an interesting dish. The severed tentacles still writhe freely and grasp at anything in an attempt to not be consumed...
  33. Tristram Shandy from london ontario, Canada writes: Eric B from Ottawa, Canada writes: Tristram Shandy from london ontario: why do you feel the need to explain your reference to TVO to americans?
    Last I heard, G&M was a Canadian paper, and most people on these comment boards are Canadians!

    Lots of Yanks on this website, and someone above from the UK I noticed, I have seen people from India commenting here, Europe.

    And possibly there are Canadians not familiar with TV 'ONTARIO', since we are not the centre of the Canadian universe.

    Go Alberta!!
  34. S Lucht from British Columbia, Canada writes: I'm pretty sure the fisherman wasn't so awestruck by the porcelain that he neglected to take the poor, snack-sized little octopus with him. Great discovery for Koreans, not so great for the critter.
  35. Devil's Advocate from Canada writes: I'm pretty sure it's "octopuses" and not "octopi". Octopus originates from Greek and not Latin, correct?

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