If I had the funds I would start a octopus farm and use artificial selection to make them land dwellers. by gradually encouraging them to get food from the forest.
anyone willing to fund me?
with enough funds I'll also domesticate them so they can be nice household pets. no, we will never let the Deep to adopt one or step on our premises.
based on Russian fox domestication experiment, 50 years of artificial selection can turn a wild fox into a household puppy. although I'll admit, it's likely way easier on social mammals as all they did is mess up their neoteny (extend child like traits into adulthood), in no stage of an octopus life they are sociable, so it might be harder.
slightly related trivia, most animal domestication involved neoteny, and it also happened to humans, so it is correct to say, we humans also domesticated ourselves.
Reminds me of some "speculative evolution" show I saw as a kid, that among other things suggested first amphibious and then a long while later monkey-esque tree dwelling cephalopods
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Why here, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus
Sounds like something out of Gravity Falls.
That's why it's from the Pacific Northwest.
now I'm sad that they don't exist:(
If I had the funds I would start a octopus farm and use artificial selection to make them land dwellers. by gradually encouraging them to get food from the forest.
anyone willing to fund me?
with enough funds I'll also domesticate them so they can be nice household pets. no, we will never let the Deep to adopt one or step on our premises.
You just have to wait 10k years
based on Russian fox domestication experiment, 50 years of artificial selection can turn a wild fox into a household puppy. although I'll admit, it's likely way easier on social mammals as all they did is mess up their neoteny (extend child like traits into adulthood), in no stage of an octopus life they are sociable, so it might be harder.
slightly related trivia, most animal domestication involved neoteny, and it also happened to humans, so it is correct to say, we humans also domesticated ourselves.
So what you're saying is that puppygirls are the next stage of human evolution?
only if I get proper funding and absolute no ethical oversight. and I'll need everyone to suddenly get really cool really fast about eugenics
I'd rather evolve into a catgirl, personally...
Reminds me of some "speculative evolution" show I saw as a kid, that among other things suggested first amphibious and then a long while later monkey-esque tree dwelling cephalopods
I saw that one too, was very cool.
That’s like the house hippo we have in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_hippo
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
From a nearby fish shop.
And how did it pay for it? Pawpal!
Foxes will eat carrion. It probably washed up onto the shore.
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In BC, the forest is near the shore. Sometimes it is the shore. We don't have many beaches...
That's legendary spawn for a fox.
Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncey.