I knew there’s a flying squid that likes to post memes though
If a squid swimming near the surface is spooked by a predator or a boat, it streamlines into a torpedo shape and fires itself out of the water. At the same time, it splays its eight tentacles into a flat, fan-like pattern in front of its face – some breeds even exude mucus to fill in the spaces, creating a unified, kite-like surface. It also flares a pair of fins near its rear end and – voilà – the squid becomes a living, breathing jet.
That’s interesting, when I was a kid I remember always hearing that an octopus has eight tentacles and a squid has ten. I suppose ‘limbs’ might have been a more accurate descriptor.
Oddly, I knew that cuttlefish have a distinction between arms and tentacles. I’m not in biology, but I always thought of them as tiny squid, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they were related.
If you’re correcting me on the joke, it’s a pun where “ten tickles” sounds like “tentacles.” The number ten is unrelated to the number of limbs - it’s actually usually told about an octopus
Octopi have no tentacles, those are all arms!
So wait, you’re telling me that an octopus doesn’t have tentacles at all?
My whole entire world (in regards to a small subset of cephalopods) has been turned upside down.
Yeah, I had the same feeling when I learned about that. It seems to be a common misnomer.