Comments on: The Octopus: Smart, Dumb, Other? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sili http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/comment-page-1/#comment-945 Sili Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:19:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/#comment-945 You're just trolling for a Pharyngulation with a title like that, aren't you? :makes note to buy <em>Microcosm</em>: You’re just trolling for a Pharyngulation with a title like that, aren’t you?

:makes note to buy Microcosm:

]]> By: themadlolscientist http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/comment-page-1/#comment-944 themadlolscientist Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:07:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/#comment-944 Great article. Oh, and I hope PZ never sees that picture! Great article. Oh, and I hope PZ never sees that picture!

]]> By: Tobias Zimmerman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/comment-page-1/#comment-943 Tobias Zimmerman Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:11:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/22/the-octopus-smart-dumb-other/#comment-943 While I have no problem with a condemnation of the tradition of throwing dead octopuses on the ice at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit -- including the fact that the team even encourages the tradition by lowering a gigantic octopus mascot from the ceiling -- I think it is a tad unfair to single out only the man in the picture (Al Sobotka) who is, after all, the guy tasked with cleaning up said mollusks, not the person who actually threw them in the first place. I have read articles in the past about people buying the octopuses at local fish markets near the arena (in Detroit's Greektown neighborhood), but I have not seen anything that discussed whether there is any significant ecological impact that otherwise wouldn't occur. More on the tradition can be found on the "reliable" source of Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Red_Wings#Fan_Tradition:_The_Octopus" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Red_Wings#Fan_Tradition:_The_Octopus</a> While I have no problem with a condemnation of the tradition of throwing dead octopuses on the ice at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit — including the fact that the team even encourages the tradition by lowering a gigantic octopus mascot from the ceiling — I think it is a tad unfair to single out only the man in the picture (Al Sobotka) who is, after all, the guy tasked with cleaning up said mollusks, not the person who actually threw them in the first place.

I have read articles in the past about people buying the octopuses at local fish markets near the arena (in Detroit’s Greektown neighborhood), but I have not seen anything that discussed whether there is any significant ecological impact that otherwise wouldn’t occur.

More on the tradition can be found on the “reliable” source of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Red_Wings#Fan_Tradition:_The_Octopus

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