The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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#2I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment:
> The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Internet literacy classes in schools and has been used in multiple studies demonstrating children's gullibility regarding online sources of information. [1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus
Re: The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
#3I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: > The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Inter…
> others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment
But then they wouldn't learn anything about reading critically.
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#4I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: > The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Inter…
Unfortunately the campaign was unsuccessful and octopus paxarboli went extinct not long after the page first was published, before internet access was common and before smartphones could easily take pictures of it etc. Just because there's minimal evidence of something from before the internet, on the internet, doesn't make it a hoax.
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#5This is great, reminds me of a classic from my childhood, the house hippo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TijcoS8qHIE
Re: The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
#6I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: > The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Inter…
Unfortunately the campaign was unsuccessful and octopus paxarboli went extinct not long after the page first was published, before internet access was common and before smartphones could easily take pictures of it etc. Just because there's minimal evidence of something from before the internet, on the internet, doesn't make it a hoax.
Not to mention that 100% of all octopus fossils have been found on land.
We have zero evidence of octopus fossils in the ocean.
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#7Terry Pratchett added these wonderful animals to the world in which his book Nation takes place (one of his very best books, if you ask me). He undoubtedly was inspired by this website
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#8Terry Pratchett added these wonderful animals to the world in which his book Nation takes place (one of his very best books, if you ask me). He undoubtedly was inspired by this website
Sir Pterry was inspired by just about everything, which in itself is an inspiration to always digest what this world throws at us and turn it into all sorts of fantastic things.
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#9> Although the tree octopus is not officially listed on the Endangered Species List, we feel that it should be added since its numbers are at a critically low level for its breeding needs. The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch.
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#10I randomly come across a link to this every ten years or so. It is put together splendidly well.
I must admit however that I’m a tad disappointed that the list of factors contributing to the critical endangerment of this wonderful specimen still has not been updated to include mention of the extinction of its once-primary source of nutrition, the harvest of the spaghetti tree [0].
Perhaps in ten more years this oversight will have been corrected!
[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/that-time-the-bbc-foo...