Posted on 08/23/2023 5:23:52 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A deep-sea mystery involving thousands of octopuses found off the coast of Central California was recently solved by a team of ocean researchers.
The mystery appeared three years ago, when the largest known “Octopus Garden,” in the world was discovered two miles underwater on the seafloor.
In 2018, researchers discovered thousands of octopuses near the base of an extinct volcano, Davidson Seamount, 80 miles off the coast of Monterey.
“It is the biggest aggregation of octopuses ever discovered, and the only one off the coast of the U.S.,” a San Jose State University spokesperson wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at koin.com ...
We would sing
And dance around
Because we know
We can’t be found
Ummm...pulpo grilled tacos.
All of the octopuses migrated through cold dark waters to reach the volcano’s hydrothermal springs. The study states, “Of all the hurdles faced by animals in the deep sea, cold may be the most challenging.”
Thank God for global warming!
Octopi are very interesting animals and scary smart as well.
I remember reading a story about a shark tank, at an aquarium. Small sharks corpses were often found in the tank eaten to the bone and the owner-operators couldn’t figure it out. So they installed a camera to see what was happening.
What was happening was that, at night, the octopus would escape his tank and crawl over to the shark tank. He’d lift the lid and climb in. He would then grab a small shark and eat it whole and wait a couple of hours before spitting out the bones and crawling back to its own tank for the morning.
Yikes!
Oh, great. Now I’ll have that ancient Earworm doing the Hula in my head for the next few hours.
Yes, octopi don’t care if they are costing you a $1,000/night for shark meat.
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As I said, scary smart.
Here’s a funny story by somebody who actually worked with octopi.
I think that shark story might be an amalgamation of a couple of stories?
There was an aquarium in Seattle that had a giant Pacific octopus. They were worried it would eat the fish so they put it in the shark tank, going it could give from the Sharks. Turns out the octopus could eat the Sharks, and would do so at night. Sharks were going missing so they set up a camera and saw it.
Google ‘Seattle aquarium Pacific octopus eats Sharks’ and you’ll find out more.
I used to work in an aquarium in new Zealand and our octopuses would always escape. We had to keep the tanks locked. I’ll tell you a story. We had an octopus tank in the gift shop. There were other tropical fish tanks, and a BIG open top crayfish tank also in the gift shop area, we called it the foyer area. It was a carpeted area. Anyway, while cleaning the octopus tank we’d find these little rubber rings. Skinny rubber rings. No one could figure out where they were coming from. Every few days one would turn up, happened over a month or so. One day we turn up in the morning and our octopus was lying on the carpet in the gift shop. Octopuses can stay out of water as long as their gills stay dry, but carpet is like a Sahara desert to them because it sucks out all their moisture. So we put her back and try and figure out how she got out. We saw the water inlet hose had come out, and it was really short. Then we clicked. During the night, when no one was watching, this octopus would nibble a tiny section from the bottom of the hose. Bit by bit so no one would notice, and only at night so no one saw. Eventually the hose was short enough that it could push it through and out of the tank and it escaped through the hole. Not trying to escape but to eat the crayfish on the other side of the gift shop.
It was that experience and a few others that made me fall in love with these incredibly intelligent animals.
They could be warm
Beneath the storm
In their little hideaway beneath the waves.
That’s right ... it’s not “octopuses” it is octopi!
Here in my Florida county, Sarasota, there is a warm water area where alligators congregate.
I have no desire to visit it.
No, he didn’t!
According to the story, at the time I read it, yes he did.
I followed that up with another story where somebody who worked with octopi wrote his experiences at just how creative they can be when they want to escape.
Amazing story and animals. Thanks. Enjoyed reading.
Amazing!
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