argonauts are physiologically smarter than us!!

[nari]

Have just watched a program on cephalopods...

The argonaut (similar to a nautilus), when it feels frisky, disengages one of its tentacles loaded with goodies; the tentacle then makes its own way through the sea towards the female, finds the gills, and wraps itself around the gills to dislodge its cargo....

Wow factor. Makes us look fairly primitive???

What's more, cephalopods are a darn sight prettier than we are with their camouflage colours and oscillating lights..

Nari

[bernard]

http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/

[nari]

Bernard, you never cease to amaze me, with your discovery of webpages as soon as we post something...

I think I shall get reincarnated as a cephalopod.
I like the cursor, too.

Do you ever get to eat? We know you don't sleep!



nari

[bernard]

Nari,

I prefer to be reincarned in a cuttlefish. They are intelligent and are known to communicate with their skin with a "body" language. (Scientists are unable to understand a word of it!!!).

When I was scuba diving in Martinique, a little family of cuttlefishes was looking at me and following my movements for half of an hour. It was very enjoying! And they spoke certainly about my inaptitude to breath underwater and my poor swimming ability!