Question: How do you actually milk a octopus and it must be hard?

Gloeta Massie answered on 15 Jun 2011:

Elmocho – that’s a really great question and I would really love to tell you – except that I can’t. See, the problem is that this is a publicly available question, and there are people out there who would read what I what write and then would go home and try to do it on their own. It’s not that it’s difficult (it’s not), but if you don’t do it the right way – it could really harm the octopus and the person doing the milking! I want to make sure that no one gets hurt. 🙂 So – if you’re really keen to know – go the librarian at your school (or locally library) and you ask her/him to show you how to find this article: Key et al 2002, Haemolytic act in Eledone saliva. It talks about what we do there. 🙂