"Some began breathing very quickly or slowly, changing colour rapidly"
They where just trying to create their own light show. Should have shipped them off to a rave, they would have been popular.
Humans and octopuses may have drastically different brains, but both react in a surprisingly similar way when under the effects of the drug MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy. Octopuses are solitary creatures, preferring to slink around cracks and crevices in rocks on the seabed rather than bothering to socialise with their …
Hah, your obvious joke was addressed ahead of time:
Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the study, said: “People are like, ‘Have you got any pictures of octopuses holding glow sticks?’ which I kind of ignore because that wasn’t really our objective. MDMA is a great tool for investigating whether or not an octopus can become social.”
"Comedy animal abuse!"
There's nothing particularly abusive about making animals feel happy though, is there? Considering all the pretty awful things that could happen to animals who get experimented upon, a slightly excessive dose of ecstasy is right at the bottom of the list.
Not to mention that not-experimented-upon octopuses could end up as 'Pulpoa la plancha'...
mmmmmm......
"Excluded from further analysis"
Because they died and the cunts don't want to admit they murdered sentient beings?
Some began breathing very quickly or slowly, changing colour rapidly and a few went deathly white. They were hyper aroused and started moving crazily in a catatonic state. These animals were “were excluded from further analysis,” and hopefully taken to a chill-out tank with Kruder & Dorfmeister piped in.
Will mix MDMA with vodka and redbull and occasionally add viagra to that mix, I wonder what effect that cocktail will have on an octopus?
Balcony diving into a pool should have been included. Balcony diving shows clearly how much the normal inhibitions and even fear to reckless behaviour are reduced by MDMA.
I have just retired after 15 years in Ibiza, some of my work included personal security and accompanying clients to clubs.
A lot of the kids take only ecstasy and drink water but by the end of the evening, without alcohol they end up having sex in the streets and on the beach, a lot of the ones who drink with it become too out of it to even contemplate sex so I think the 'I love everyone' part of ecstasy effects does serve to lower inhibitions in as much as it raises libido enough to overcome inhibitions.
No I have tried tried it myself, I quit mind altering drugs at the end of the '70s before 'e's became a thing but talking to enough people who have and observation is the basis for what I said.
Hmmm I think the justification for the science could have been highlighted a bit more here. Scientists don't do animal studies lightly.
Usually they'd rather avoid animal studies and stick to in-vitro experiments. Using animals involves a lot of paperwork and cost. Behavioural studies are not really possible without doing it this way though..
Hmmm. Would octopedes imply a plurality of molluscs, or rather a plurality of feet?
Come to think of it, isn't "octopus" itself a misnomer. That is to say, shouldn't it be eightfeet rather than eightfoot? And that's leaving aside the question of whether it's reasonable to describe their tentacles as legs: perhaps one could get there via some arachnalogy[1]?
[1] arachnid analogy.
The term of venery for a multitude of octopus is a rally. A rally of octopus, like a murder of crows.
A streak of tigers (London Zoo has a charity naked human streak each year for tiger charities). A sleuth of bears. A charm of goldfinches. A wisdom of wombats. A parliament of rooks. A business of flies. A bellowing of bullfinches. A bed of eels. A stud of mares. A gaze of raccoons. A crash of rhinoceroses.
A convocation of us.