The
cuttlefish Octo-Pus
and
the crab Crab-Mac-Claw
by Asbjorn
Lonvig, artist/designer
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The cuttlefish
has
many arms
or are they legs?
Try to count the
arms
or legs.
That's right, it
has
eight.
In Greek eight is
called octo.
That's why this
cuttlefish ought to be called Octo.
But his mother's
and
father's sirname was Octopus
so
we will call him
Octo-Pus.
If Octo-Pus
becomes
afraid of something
he is very good
at
hiding himself.
He can change his
color so that he matches his surroundings.
He can become
red,
he
can become yellow,
he can become
green
and he can become blue, too.
Point out the red
Octo-Pus. And the yellow Octo-Pus.
Point out the
green
Octo-Pus and point out the blue one.
And if Octo-Pus
hides
in a place that is blue
...he is very
difficult to find.
Can you find
Octo-Pus?
If Octo-Pus
becomes
afraid that some animal might eat him,
he gets angry.
When he gets mad
he
sprays ink.
That's why the
cuttlefish in some languages is called an ink sputter.
When Octo-Pus
sprays
ink,
only you and
Octo-Pus
know
where he is.
OOO
Octo-Pus has a
friend
on the bottom of the sea.
He is called
Crab-Mac-Claw.
He has more
legs than Octo-Pus.
How many legs
does
Crab-Mac-Claw have?
Yes, he has ten.
That's because you must remember to count the two claws,
even though the
claws
look like arms.
Crab-Mac-Claw
uses
his claws when he eats and when he fights.
That's why he is
called Crab-Mac-Claw.
He is dangerous
to
his enemies.
The legs are, of
course, used for walking,
but he can't walk
forwards,
only sideways or
backwards.
Which color is
Crab-Mac-Claw?
You must see
Crab-Mac-Claw's brothers and sisters.
They can't change
colors,
so they look very
much alike.
He has so many
brothers and sisters
that we can't
count
them.
There might be
more
than one hundred.
But.
You can see, they
are
different in size.
The big ones are
his
brothers.
The small ones
are
his sisters.
A he-crab is big
and
a she-crab is small.
OOO
One day the whole
family Crab was sitting on the bottom of the sea.
Suddenly a huge
fish
came by,
a huge fish that
eats
crabs.
The fish was blue
and
very, very ugly.
The crabs
shivered.
They were scared.
They knew that
the
huge, blue and ugly fish would eat them.
The blue fish
grinned
with satisfaction;
it knew that
before
long
it would enjoy a
feast.
It opened its
jaws
and...
But.
Octo-Pus had seen
his
friends were
in danger.
He jumped into
the
middle of the crowd of his
crab friends,
and as the blue
fish
was about to eat the crabs,
Octo-Pus sprayed
a
huge cloud of ink
into the blue
devil's
eyes.
The blue fish
coughed
and
it could see
nothing.
It could not see
where the crabs had gone.
The blue fish
disappeared.
It was angry, as
angry as a huge, blue, ugly fish can possibly be.
Can you see who
are
in the cloud of ink?
In the middle of
his
crab friends?
That's Octo-Pus.
He has a red nose
and
he is smiling.
Everybody was
happy.
Octo-Pus had
saved
Crab-Mac-Claw and all his crab friends.
And Octo-Pa-Pa,
that is Octo-Pus'
father,
and Octo-Ma-Ma,
that is Octo-Pus'
mother,
you can see
she is ten times
bigger than his father,
they were proud.
For Lucca Lysholm
Lonvig
from
Asbjorn Lonvig, artist
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