Terrestrial Tentacles?

[Anonymous No.10893072]

We see tentacles mainly in aquatic life, with a show I watched implying that tentacles/arms like those that exist on squids and octopuses simply cannot function at any meaningful strength level in the air. For the sake of science fiction and fantasy monsters that have tentacles while on land, how would those tentacles be at least as strong as the water-based ones? What advantages would they provide on land compared to underwater?

[Anonymous No.10893077]

>>10893072
Climbing plants use what can be called tentacles and it's fairly adapt at performing the job their name would imply

[Anonymous No.10893080]

>>10893072
Air tentacles would consist of many special every-direction joints

[Anonymous No.10893085]

>>10893072
here's your tentacle system bro

[Anonymous No.10893267]

>>10893085
Centipedes are air tentacles, yes checkd

[Anonymous No.10893276]

>>10893085
Baste

[Anonymous No.10893329]

>>10893072
>squid tentacles don't work on land
>therefore all tentacles don't work on land

This is how retarded science has been for centuries.

[Anonymous No.10893334]

>>10893085
Makes me think of Tremors when you put it this way.

[Anonymous No.10893695]

>>10893072
>tfw no prehensile tail
Would be cool.

[Anonymous No.10893862]

>>10893072

[Anonymous No.10893897]

>>10893085
Do they get hemorrhoids?

[Anonymous No.10894820]

>>10893862
Really?

[Anonymous No.10896301]

>>10893897
What?

[Anonymous No.10896312]

>>10894820
Yes. Squidlike appendices would not support significant weight on land.
An elly's trunk is made out of thousands of muscles and would liquify your insides were it to hit you at full blast

[Anonymous No.10897736]

>>10896312
How would a similar structure evolve, then?

[Anonymous No.10897747]

>>10893267
>Centipedes

[Anonymous No.10897750]

>>10893329
I doubt that's what the show actually stated. It's much more likely that OP is a dummy and misunderstood their sentiment. Even if whatever show he's talking about did state that, there's no reason to believe that they did so because they were told that by some scientist.

[Anonymous No.10898422]

>>10897736
Probably wouldn't. Prehensile tails, trunks, lips, or tongues are as close as you get, and aside from the tail, they're usually no load bearing appendages. An elephants trunk is pretty strong, but if you gave it four trunks for legs it wouldn't be able to move, and those trunks would take more muscle and energy to coordinate then legs that just need a couple big muscles to work.

[Anonymous No.10898568]

>>10893072
I want real life vraska too buddy

[Anonymous No.10899882]

>>10898422
But what if you gave it four legs plus a bifurcated trunk with four manipulator digits at the end of each?

[Anonymous No.10900757]

>>10899882
Well?

[Anonymous No.10901443]

>>10893862
God elephants are so stupid for evolving a useful appendage out of their breathing organ. They should have used something like the upper or lower lips.

[Anonymous No.10902843]

>>10898422
>>10901443
With a prehensile tail and a prehensile trunk, are elephants reprehensible?

[Anonymous No.10904706]

>>10902843
What?

[Anonymous No.10904750]

>>10901443
You sure about that?

[Anonymous No.10904764]

>>10893072
>simply cannot function at any meaningful strength level in the air.
The neck on the brontosaurus-like dinosaur is so long and big, it is not known how the neck muscles ever could have supported such a long tentacle neck, which is way huge and long even compared to the only modestly long giraffe neck. Brontosaurus neck is like 20x heavier and 5x longer, and it is totally unlike giraffe neck. Even if dinosaur neck muscle was the strongest muscle tissue known to exist in the present day, there is no way that such muscle tissue could have allowed the brontosaurus to lift its head off the ground. I think I learned this at the Fernbank dinosaur museum.

[Anonymous No.10904774]

>>10893072
Plant branchs are tentacles

[Anonymous No.10905175]

>>10893072

How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?

Ten tickles.

[Anonymous No.10905193]

>>10904764
Maybe it was just really really thick.

[Anonymous No.10905215]

>>10905193
then it would be even heavier, and it would be even more impossible for the thing to lift its head