During a surface break from coral reef monitoring our Marine Biologists noticed something small when
they picked up several items of floating plastic marine debris. This beautiful little octopus was found among
the debris. On there next dive, our Geoscientists in Parks intern Ashley Pugh released the octopus safe and sound
in a small protected space.
Octopi. Just sayin’.
Stand bye as next we will hear(if they tell us) the tank cannot support that many off spring and most will die or have died
I think it's 5 or 6 in the past few weeks. And they're not even related or followups.
Posted on 11/1/2018, 11:01:30 AM by ETL
For an octopus mom, the miracle of life is bittersweet. After wandering the seas alone, she meets up with a mate, collects his sperm and then goes on to deprive herself of any food while caring for her now-fertilized eggs. When it nears time for the little eight-armed bundles to hatch, the mom wastes away, entering an aquatic death spiral.
She never even gets to see the fruits of her labor, having perished by the time her young emerge from their eggs.
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The brooding females, the scientists found, cared for their egg clutches for the first eight days, on average, blowing water over the eggs and stroking them with their suckers. The octo-moms also kept eating. "We were a bit surprised that there was a period of feeding while brooding that preceded the fasting period, because it hadn't been characterized before. Results like this demonstrate how much more there is to know in these animals," Wang told Live Science.
During the next stage of brooding, the females stopped eating; after about 11 days of fasting, the octopuses entered a rapid decline, the researchers wrote.
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The researchers watched as new mothers rammed their mantles into the glass sides of the aquarium or the gravel at the bottom of the tank, leading to deep wounds that didn't heal. ..."
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I’ve read that mama octopus doesn’t survive reproduction. Did this one?
Media blames Trump.
True Facts about the octopus.
80,000 arms to hold you
In a few years they’ll all be registered Democrats
Eating octopus is on my bucket list.
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.
““tens of thousands” of baby octopuses”
Yum
Fresh calamari for sale in the gift shop!
Just in time to vote. Coincidence? I think not. I’ll bet the dems already have ‘em registered.
