1971 THE OCTOPUS magazine article, habits, marine biology etc

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Selling is a 1971 magazine article about:
THE OCTOPUS
Title: Shy Monster, the Octopus
Author: Gilbert L. Voss
From the first page “A fellow marine biologist came into my office carrying a glass jar. He looked puzzled.
"I've been stung by these octopuses," he I said, lifting the jar for me to see. "Yet an octopus isn't supposed to sting."
"How did it happen?" I asked.
"I was netting animals in midocean from the collecting platform of our ship," he said. "Now and then the sea washed against me. Suddenly, my legs were stung by a swarm of creatures. I scooped some up, and here they are."
My friend set down the jar. In the formalin solution I could see dozens of tiny blanket octopuses. I laughed. "You're right-no cephalopod can sting. Let me show you what happened."
I placed one of the delicate creatures under the microscope. There, stuck along the base of each arm, lay a slender gelatinous string held in place by the octopus's suckers, They were sections of the stinging tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war, a kind of jellyfish.
"Young blanket octopuses collect these tentacles," I explained, "cut them to the right length, and put…”
7” x 10”, 24 pages, 23 photos,
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1971 magazine.
71K1
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