# No, Spongebob, I'm not Squidward. I'm just a blb of algae walking away

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**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-spongebob-im-not-squidward-im-just-a-blb-of-algae-walking-away/296119 "2005-03-25T00:41:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-spongebob-im-not-squidward-im-just-a-blb-of-algae-walking-away/296119/1 "2005-03-25T00:41:52Z")

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Scientists discover that octopodes\* “walk” away from predators underwater on two tentacles. Just on the evening news, and here:  
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20050324/ap\_on\_sc/walking\_octopuses](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_sc/walking_octopuses)

\*The proper plural of _octopus_, and itself the topic of more than one thread here at the SDMB. Please don’t start another one.

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-spongebob-im-not-squidward-im-just-a-blb-of-algae-walking-away/296119/2 "2005-03-25T00:48:49Z")

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Interesting stuff, but there’s a touch of the humourous about it. It’s the “disguising itself as algae” part I think. It conjures up images of Wile E. Coyote tip-toeing in short bursts whilst hiding inside a fake tree trunk.