Bought just for fun. I have yet to open one and try it.
Posted on 11/02/2018 3:24:48 PM PDT by ETL
When Octavius, a female common octopus at the University of Georgia’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium, went into hiding for roughly a month, officials at the aquatic center were baffled.
Normally a present creature, Octavius would greet visitors by sticking her tentacles on the inside of her tank. But in recent weeks, the sea animal — formally known as an Octopus vulgaris — spent more time hiding in a rock cave inside her tank, the Savannah Morning News reported.
Early last week, officials finally figured out why: Octavius was pregnant and eventually laid her eggs, which hatched into “tens of thousands” of baby octopuses, according to the newspaper.
“I noticed this cloud of moving dots and I realized, ‘Oh my God, she had babies. There are babies. There are babies everywhere,’” Devin Dumont, the curator at the aquarium, told the Savannah Morning News.
“I immediately started scooping them out and putting them in buckets and there were just buckets and buckets and buckets full of tiny octopi,” Dumont, who discovered the octopus's secret while cleaning her tank, added.
Female common octopuses can store a male octopus’ sperm for weeks before the eggs are fertilized and eventually laid. When the female is ready, it will "become restless and search for a sheltered place where they can lay and brood the eggs without disturbance," the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology explains online.
"Fertilization takes place in the oviductal glands as the mature eggs pass through them on their way out of the oviducts," the museum continued, adding these creatures can lay up to 500,000 eggs.
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Eating octopus is on my bucket list.
They can spell ‘Geoscientists’, but they don’t know the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’.
Octopuses is the correct form, as it is a Greek word. Octopodes is better still.
Then momma dies.
I’m guessing that many other fish or underwater creatures will eat most of those baby octopi up very quickly.
They probably depend on it.
Sort of as with certain kinds of turtles. Either the eggs get eaten, or the baby turtle gets eaten before he can run into the deep water.
“don’t know the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’.”
You mean they’re is a difference? /s
Bought just for fun. I have yet to open one and try it.
““tens of thousands” of baby octopuses”
Yum
I had roasted octopus, at one of the Greek restaurants by the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs, FL. It does kinda taste like chicken.
I prefer "octopussies".
Fresh calamari for sale in the gift shop!
As long as you don’t get takotsubo from it...
>>>She never even gets to see the fruits of her labor, having perished by the time her young emerge from their eggs.<<<
Tens or hundreds of thousands of babies.
Rachel Imenu, the quintessential mother of all Israel.
Jeremiah 31
15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Octavius - 8th, going one level up (octave)
Baby octopus is delishious.
The blue-ringed octopuses, including the blue-lined octopus, may ‘bite’ if handled. Within minutes symptoms include numbness of the lips and tongue, difficulty in breathing, followed by complete paralysis of the breathing muscles.
Victims appear to lose consciousness. However, after recovering, they have reported being able to hear everything around them. Call for help, monitor breathing and airways. Apply mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Wouldn’t they be IN your bucket list unless they’re climbing out to escape?
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