full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Greg Gage: How octopuses battle each other

Unscramble the Blue Letters


GG: Ooh, and already —

IC: We're seeing some action. Looks like they've spotted each other.

GG: Right. So now he's going to come — He's aprachnpiog, but not directly at him.

IC: Yeah, they're like almost completely antiparallel.

GG: And then right there —

IC: Yeah. They contact, and then their arms clash together.

(srting msiuc)

GG: So we've taken the first steps in understanding fighting in the octopus. And you might be asking yourself: Why does this even matter? Well, these types of curiosity-based rcreesah questions can often lead to some unexpected insights and discoveries. We've laeernd a lot about ourselves from studying marine animals. Squid have taught us about how our neurons communicate, and the horseshoe crab has tghuat us about how our eyes work. So it's not too far of a stretch to say that some of these behaviors that we're seeing in the cfraoinlia two-spot octopus are similar to ours.

Open Cloze


GG: Ooh, and already —

IC: We're seeing some action. Looks like they've spotted each other.

GG: Right. So now he's going to come — He's ___________, but not directly at him.

IC: Yeah, they're like almost completely antiparallel.

GG: And then right there —

IC: Yeah. They contact, and then their arms clash together.

(______ _____)

GG: So we've taken the first steps in understanding fighting in the octopus. And you might be asking yourself: Why does this even matter? Well, these types of curiosity-based ________ questions can often lead to some unexpected insights and discoveries. We've _______ a lot about ourselves from studying marine animals. Squid have taught us about how our neurons communicate, and the horseshoe crab has ______ us about how our eyes work. So it's not too far of a stretch to say that some of these behaviors that we're seeing in the __________ two-spot octopus are similar to ours.

Solution


  1. string
  2. california
  3. approaching
  4. music
  5. taught
  6. learned
  7. research

Original Text


GG: Ooh, and already —

IC: We're seeing some action. Looks like they've spotted each other.

GG: Right. So now he's going to come — He's approaching, but not directly at him.

IC: Yeah, they're like almost completely antiparallel.

GG: And then right there —

IC: Yeah. They contact, and then their arms clash together.

(String music)

GG: So we've taken the first steps in understanding fighting in the octopus. And you might be asking yourself: Why does this even matter? Well, these types of curiosity-based research questions can often lead to some unexpected insights and discoveries. We've learned a lot about ourselves from studying marine animals. Squid have taught us about how our neurons communicate, and the horseshoe crab has taught us about how our eyes work. So it's not too far of a stretch to say that some of these behaviors that we're seeing in the California two-spot octopus are similar to ours.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
fighting behavior 2
defensive octopus 2


Important Words


  1. action
  2. animals
  3. antiparallel
  4. approaching
  5. arms
  6. behaviors
  7. california
  8. clash
  9. communicate
  10. completely
  11. contact
  12. crab
  13. discoveries
  14. eyes
  15. fighting
  16. horseshoe
  17. insights
  18. lead
  19. learned
  20. lot
  21. marine
  22. matter
  23. music
  24. neurons
  25. octopus
  26. ooh
  27. questions
  28. research
  29. similar
  30. spotted
  31. squid
  32. steps
  33. stretch
  34. string
  35. studying
  36. taught
  37. types
  38. understanding
  39. unexpected
  40. work
  41. yeah