Introduction

Alex Schmidt: Octopuses are one of my favorite animals. Even though they're pretty wiggly, especially the biggest ones like the giant Pacific octopus. It just seems like a megafauna in a way where that doesn't bug me. Especially all the huge sea creatures, except maybe giant squids. But octopuses hold a special place in my heart. They're cute. They're smart. They are just kind of splooty, which I like. So an animal to me that is somewhat gelatinous in either behavior or actual physiology and just sort of splutes out when you plop it on something? To me that’s a splooty animal