Talk:Mimic octopus

message: 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)
replies: text: As soon as we can accrue enough free-use images, yes.--Mr Fink (talk) 01:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Table of mimics

message: 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)
thread_title:  Contradictory statements 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Extensive copy-edit 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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, wikt:octopus#Usage notes, WP:PLURALS. Amalthea 13:22, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. Octopodes. You beat me to it. Go XKCD (#928!)Matttoothman (talk) 02:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pluralization 

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

message: 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)
thread_title: Units

message: Mimic Octopus →  –
* Move to lowercase title. - M0rphzone (talk) 01:34, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to revert two of Apteva's edits to this article because of the aforementioned reasons. Hill Crest's WikiLaser! (BOOM!)  20:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Chicken mimicry 

message: 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)
thread_title:  deleted sentence 

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