{"id":6367,"date":"2013-10-06T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2021-08-14T23:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:57:40","slug":"squid-and-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/squid-and-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Cephalopods: Squid and Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cephalopods, real and imaginary, pop up in an array of literature, from Game of Thrones<\/i> to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/i> (in which a giant cephalopod attacks a submarine named for a cephalopod). H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s all-powerful Cthulhu is a part-octopus-like god with tentacles, first appearing in 1928 in the creepy short story The Call of Cthulhu<\/a>. The wicked witch in the film version of The Little Mermaid<\/a> is Ursula, an octopus; and Finding Nemo<\/a> features a pink flapjack octopus<\/a> named Pearl. Germany\u2019s late Paul the Octopus<\/a> was famed for predicting the winners in international soccer matches.<\/p>\n

Cephalopod Awareness Days<\/a> come around every year from October 8-12. In fact, each of the days is devoted to a different type of cephalopod: October 8 is Octopus Day; the 9th<\/sup> is Nautilus Night; the 10th<\/sup>, Squid and Cuttlefish Day; the 11th<\/sup> celebrates the kraken and other legendary cephalopods; and the 12th<\/sup> is the day for cephalopods now gone, such as the extinct ammonites.<\/p>\n

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