Life is hard enough without a third octopus plural form.ДЄll of this got me thinking about expertise again and the Dunning - Kruger effect. Seriously, does anyone use octopi and manage to keep a straight face?Д®ven more interestingly, there is a third form: octopodes. Mirriam Webster and have both seemingly given up and list the plural form as either вЂњoctopusesвЂќ or вЂњoctopiвЂќ. As it turns out, this is one of the most long standing arguments over plural form in the english language. What is the plural form of octopus? I was referring to them as вЂњoctopusesвЂќ, while my wife was firmly in the camp of вЂњoctopiвЂќ. Now, onto the perhaps less interesting topic, but title of this blog post. I quickly rushed off to get a slice of humble pie. Well, if IвЂ™m being pedantic, I would say that they donвЂ™t really have three hearts in the typical sense of what we think of as a heart, but three hearts it has nonetheless.

Octopuses have three hearts a systemic heart that circulates blood around the body and two branchial hearts that pump it through each of the two gills. The key phrase from the octopus anatomy section of Wikipedia: Of course, you can all guess the outcome of this little Google search. He was adamant that they have three hearts, and I said, well, arenвЂ™t we lucky that we have the internet and can look this up to see if it is true? At this point, I was trying to gently ease his disappointment, by saying вЂњIвЂ™ve never heard of any animal having three hearts, so IвЂ™d be really surprised if an octopus has three.вЂќ At the time, I humoured him and heard out his story, all the while thinking that the kid has a great imagination, and I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff.

Anyway, Henry, said five year old, jumped into a big story about how вЂњoctopusesвЂќ have three hearts.

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