Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 183 of Just the Zoo of Us. This week I spoke with a wonderful

marine biologist about the multifunctional, multicolored, multi-armed aliens of the ocean octopuses.

We discuss octopus handshakes, donut brains, Swiss army mouths, goat eyes, toxic friendships, and Eiffel Towers. You're not

going to want to miss any of it. But before we get into the episode, I have just a couple of really

quick programming notes. First of all, we are getting ready for our annual listener submission

episode. So if you have any questions for me and Christian that you'd like us to answer, or

stories about the

way that the podcast has had an impact on your life or how you've connected with the content,

anything that you'd like us to share, please email those into me. Ellen at just the zooof us.com

by Saturday, March 18th, preferably with the words special episode in the subject line so that we can

read them on the show. My second small programming note is that our releases over the next few

weeks will be a little different from usual since we are going to be traveling and also

preparing for some big, exciting things towards the end of this month. There will be another guest

episode next week, and the following week will actually

be a feed drop of a guest appearance that I made on another podcast that I think y'all will

really enjoy hearing. So just a heads up that episodes will look a little different temporarily

during March, but I am confident that you will love them and be just as thrilled as I am

about what's coming.

Anyway, that's that. Without further ado, just the zoo of us presents octopuses with Chelsea

Benis.

Thank you. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm Hello, friends.

This is Ellen Weatherford with your favorite animal review podcast, just the zoo of us.

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