Food For Thought

December 11, 2012 – 3:30 pm

Here’s something I didn’t know until just now: squids have doughnut-shaped brains, with the esophagus going right through the hole.

See for yourself.

Posted by Malcolm on at 3:30 pm, filed under Curiosities. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. Kevin Kim says

    The squid floated there, bemused, but obviously digesting my proposal.

    Posted December 11, 2012 at 3:34 pm | Permalink
  2. the one eyed man says

    Their donut-shaped brains aren’t preventing the clueless calamari from committing mass suicide down the road in Santa Cruz:

    http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Squid-deaths-are-a-many-tentacled-mystery-4110394.php

    Posted December 12, 2012 at 3:44 pm | Permalink
  3. Malcolm says

    Yes – actually it was that story that got me poking around in the first place, squid-wise.

    Posted December 12, 2012 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

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