asakiyume: (holy carp)
[personal profile] asakiyume
Or, octopuses can be assholes, too. (And you thought only human bosses were jerks)

"Octopuses and fish share leadership--and enforcement--in group hunting."

The octopuses punch the low-performing or freeloading fish. They punch them!

Date: 2024-09-25 07:45 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Otachi: Pacific Rim)
From: [personal profile] sovay
The octopuses punch the low-performing or freeloading fish. They punch them!

My father just read this to me!

"And then this creates more movement in the group, and then the octopus stops punching."

Date: 2024-09-25 07:51 pm (UTC)
osprey_archer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] osprey_archer
AS THE FREELOADING FISH DESERVE, BY GOD. Now if only we could do that to Alex over in accounting...

(As far as I know there is no Alex in accounting and if there is I am sure they do their fair share of the work. No Alexes were hurt in the making of this comment!)

Date: 2024-09-25 08:01 pm (UTC)
lilysea: Serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] lilysea
Oh god:

someone I used to work with told a story about a Very, VERY Senior Executive who had viciously elbowed them in the sides all through a meeting

because the executive didn't think that they were typing up the notes fast enough :(

(both the person elbowing and the person being elbowed were women)

Date: 2024-09-25 08:37 pm (UTC)
osprey_archer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] osprey_archer
With a four-quadrant graph, showing the axes "No Punching to Punching" and "Low Productivity to High Productivity."

Date: 2024-09-25 08:39 pm (UTC)
rachelmanija: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rachelmanija
Oh my god, I love this.

Date: 2024-09-25 10:32 pm (UTC)
sartorias: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sartorias
I'm totally not surprised that octopuses have personalities!

Date: 2024-09-25 10:45 pm (UTC)
sartorias: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sartorias
And the poets! And the society snobs! And the dancers. Especially the dancers!

Date: 2024-09-25 10:51 pm (UTC)
zdenka: Orange carp on a black background. "Oh, tree! Eat the fish!" (one of those days)
From: [personal profile] zdenka
That cracked me up!

Date: 2024-09-26 02:32 am (UTC)
minoanmiss: A Minoan-style drawing of an octopus (Octopus)
From: [personal profile] minoanmiss

That struck me when I researched octopodes -- they are gloriously assholic and full of personality.

Date: 2024-09-26 10:34 am (UTC)
heleninwales: (Default)
From: [personal profile] heleninwales
It's probably as well that they have very short lives. If they lived longer and had more time to think up clever plots, I suspect we would be welcoming our new octopus overlords.

Date: 2024-09-29 05:22 am (UTC)
minoanmiss: A detail of the Ladies in Blue fresco (Default)
From: [personal profile] minoanmiss

Absolutely.

Date: 2024-09-26 11:55 pm (UTC)
dark_phoenix54: (Default)
From: [personal profile] dark_phoenix54
A few months ago there was a short film clip of an octopus sucker punching a fish. I guess the fish got too close to the octopus!

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