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    Posted: October 12 2012 at 10:05
Do cephalopods (octopuses, squids, cuttle fish) sleep? My two year old nephew asked me about this yesterday. Instead of googling for an hour or two I ask you. Smile
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2012 at 10:20
I can't imagine why they wouldn't.
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I can't imagine why they would,
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2012 at 10:37
As usual, Yahoo Answers provides us with unmatched insight and enlightenment on this question,
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^ it seemed reasonable to me too, knowing that they were nocturnal and the biology of their eye is more "advanced" than ours (the don't have a blind-spot), so yes, I googled it to be sure:
 
 
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/oct/feateye 
 
Apparently, not only do they sleep, they enter a REM sleep phase and could possibly even dream.
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Fascinating.
Do Octopi dream of Aquatic sheep?


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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

As usual, Yahoo Answers provides us with unmatched insight and enlightenment on this question,
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I love this one:
Quote Have you never been to an aquarium and watched them, they curl up into a lazy ball and sleep. Then being the lazy animal that they are, will eat on of there tentacles off instead of going and forage for food.
octopus is plural, octopi is singular.
Okay - not a huge belly-laugh, but still amusing that it's the 18% best answer.
 
-us is singular and -i is plural, however, octopus is not a Latin word, it's Greek so the plural should be octopudes though octopuses is the acceptable form (octopi is just being pretentious)
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Fascinating.
Do Octopi dream of Aquatic sheep?
Oh, very good, have three clappies ClapClapClap
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OK I should have put octopuses...I wasn't being pretentious..just stupid.

But thanks for the clappies.Big smile


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Having watched enough episodes of QI we must have learnt something from the Great Lord Fry by now... if only the correct pluralisation of octopus LOL (moral: you can learn from watching TV)
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Maybe they're pining for the fjords
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Thanks! In Greek it’s κεφαλόποδα (cephalopods), meaning head-feet. Octopus is χταπόδι, meaning eight legs. I find it extremely interesting that not only do they sleep, they probably dream as well. Milo is an intelligent young lad so I think he will understand. Next week we’ll go to the aquarium in the old town so he can see these fascinating animals.
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Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

Thanks! In Greek it’s κεφαλόποδα (cephalopods), meaning head-feet. Octopus is χταπόδι, meaning eight legs. I find it extremely interesting that not only do they sleep, they probably dream as well. Milo is an intelligent young lad so I think he will understand. Next week we’ll go to the aquarium in the old town so he can see these fascinating animals.


Octopuses are supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures out there, so it doesn't surprise me that they may dream. They also are good with some marsala sauce.
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

Thanks! In Greek it’s κεφαλόποδα (cephalopods), meaning head-feet. Octopus is χταπόδι, meaning eight legs. I find it extremely interesting that not only do they sleep, they probably dream as well. Milo is an intelligent young lad so I think he will understand. Next week we’ll go to the aquarium in the old town so he can see these fascinating animals.


Octopuses are supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures out there, so it doesn't surprise me that they may dream. They also are good with some marsala sauce.

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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:


Octopuses are supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures out there, so it doesn't surprise me that they may dream. They also are good with some marsala sauce.


You mean they can cook as well?Shocked
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:


Octopuses are supposed to be one of the most intelligent creatures out there, so it doesn't surprise me that they may dream. They also are good with some marsala sauce.


You mean they can cook as well?Shocked
Their zabaione is passable as long as they don't use squid ink in it.Dead
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