Talk:Mimic octopus

Table of mimics
perhaps a table of images for each of the species the octopus mimics, and an image of the octopus copying that species would be warranted for the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.72.132.100 (talk) 00:27, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * As soon as we can accrue enough free-use images, yes.--Mr Fink (talk) 01:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Wonderpus
User:UtherSRG, please provide a source that states the Wonderpus as different species to the mimic octopus. Kernow 17:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I added this with a citation. If anyone has access to the full text of the Norman and Hochberg paper, it would be interesting to know whether "Wunderpus" is one of the species they mention as possible members of Thaumoctopus.


 * I'm also wondering what the source is for the number of 17 different imitations? The sources I've seen would suggest that a few are well-documented and the rest a matter of speculation, but I don't know what Norman and Hochberg say about it.  &mdash;Cel  ithemis  00:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Contradictory statements
''Like other octopuses, the Indonesian Mimic Octopus is a mollusk with a soft and boneless body. It has eight arms, each with two rows of suction cups. '''It catches its prey with its arms and kills it with its tough beak. Then it paralyzes the prey with a nerve poison and sucks out the flesh'.

Does it kill with a bite of its beak or does it first paralyze its victim? It obviously can't kill and then paralyze! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul from Michigan (talk • contribs) 12:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Extensive copy-edit
As you will notice, I have done much copy-editing of this article, consolidating text. Someone may assess whether the article needs the "style" warning.--Paul from Michigan 17:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Pluralization
Wikipedia's own page on Octopus notes that the correct English pluralization of octopus is octopuses. I will make these corrections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.45.153.91 (talk) 13:15, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I just came across this page and was going to make those edits, and as soon as I clicked "edit" it had already been changed. Dolmetscher (talk) 13:19, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Agree. Octopi may be correct per some dictionaries, but it's still unusual, and there's no reason to change it (except for the fun of it). See WP:RETAIN, octopus, WP:PLURALS. Amalthea  13:22, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Seconded. Octopodes. You beat me to it. Go XKCD (#928!)Matttoothman (talk) 02:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

The misconception of the spelling of octopi is because of the confusion of the origin of the word. Many people think this is a latin word- thus becoming octopi. However, the word is actually Greek. Therefore, between the two, the more correct form of this word would be octopuses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chayden5 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Latest ref
This is a recent paper published on the mollusc :
 * Huffardi, Christine L.; Saarman, Norah ; Hamilton, Healy & Simison, W. Brian. (2010) The evolution of conspicuous facultative mimicry in octopuses: an example of secondary adaptation?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 101, Issue 1,  pages 68–77, September 2010.

needs more pictures and/or videos
needs more pictures and/or videos CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) 20:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Units
an average length of about 60cm, roughly two feet, and their tentacles grow to be 25 inches long, with a diameter about the same as a pencil at their widest. The mis-match of units - cm, inches and comparative to a pencil, is jarring, and mixing an average length with what looks like a maximum tentacle length is confusing ( 60cm long with 62cm tentacles ). Something like 'average length of 60cm, though some specimens have been found with tentacles up to 62cm in length, and a diameter of around 0.7cm' may read better ( with citations and conversions as necessary ). SteveSuth (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested move
Mimic Octopus → Mimic octopus –
 * Move to lowercase title. - M0rphzone (talk) 01:34, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose - proper noun. Apteva (talk) 04:35, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * While it is a proper noun zoologists, and Wikipedia, only capitalize the first word of the English name of a species. Ornithologists, on the other hand, get it right, and capitalize both (all) words of a name (not preceded by a dash). This can be speedy moved. Not relevant. I am not able to determine if This should be treated the same as fish, per above article, the correct name is 'Mimic Octopus'. Apteva (talk) 18:17, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Support While WikiProject Birds treats species names as proper nouns, this is contrary to other practices within and without Wikipedia. --BDD (talk) 17:19, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! WP:BIRDS's capitalization does not apply here. Hill Crest&#39;s WikiLaser! (BOOM!) 20:05, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm going to revert two of Apteva's edits to this article because of the aforementioned reasons. Hill Crest&#39;s WikiLaser! (BOOM!) 20:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Chicken mimicry
Apparently they also can mimic chickens: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6KO1WTUvDLs/UwOQNR1w6OI/AAAAAAAAA9E/LGO38SCU-A4/s284-p/the_mimic_octopus_running_along_the_ocean_floor-116772.gif --197.229.74.244 (talk) 22:33, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually, it was stated by a YouTube video (lost the link) that they were not sure what the mimic octopus was doing. They said it looked like a furry turkey with human legs, but there is no evidence that what it is mimicking is a chicken or turkey or whatever. DanDan0101 (talk) 02:39, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

24.50.151.151 (talk) 21:09, 20 January 2015 (UTC) Possibly a Sargassum fish? http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3837

deleted sentence
i'm removing the following:

"Not only does the mimic octopus mimic these different animals, depending on what creature it encounters, the octopus will take different creatures."

the reason for removal is that it is unclear what "take different creatures" means. i think it should say "mimic different creatures", but that seems to merely repeat what has already been said. k kisses 20:11, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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