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Octopus camouflage, science behind the magical mermaids of Miri Attwater

22 January, 2014 by ES Ivy

best books for girls : All That Glitters cover 188 x 250In celebration of the release of Book 2, Miri Attwater and All that Glitters, I thought it would be fitting to go a little into the science behind the magic of the Miri Attwater series.

When I first started the Miri books, my intention was to write pure fantasy, with magic and everything. Magic makes things easy. Yeah, I know you have to come up with rules but – need something? Make up a rule and bam, you have something. It’s magic!

The problem was, every time I got to the point in the story where Miri’s legs magically turned into tails, it just didn’t feel right to me. Even though other writers used it – in fact the original myths even used it – it still felt hollow and unbelievable. I mean, how could legs turn into tails?

Really.

I knew it wasn’t “real,” but still my brain wanted to understand exactly how that could happen.

And then I saw a video of octopus camouflage.

And I believed.

Watch. And believe. 🙂

 

Want to learn more about octopuses? Check out the links below.

Squid and Octopus Switch on Camouflage at bbc.co.uk

8 Feet of Justice at ScienceFriday.com

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Comments

  1. Green says

    2 February, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    The video on the octopus camouflage is absolutely amazing! I knew octopuses could do that, but seeing something like that made me believe, too, that mermaids could turn their legs into tails.

    • ES Ivy says

      3 February, 2014 at 4:53 am

      I know. It’s almost hard to believe that it isn’t special effects. Can you imagine what it would be like to see in person?

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