Another video from Xcalak, Mexico! I know octopus are inquisitive, so I set my gopro right beside his burrow and backed off to see what he would do. I wasn’t disppointed! In fact, it’s a good thing I had my red lens on a lanyard, or I probably would never have got it back.
Your affection for others can cause you to turn yourself into a stranger.
They like your hair straight, so you straighten it. They think your genuine laugh is too obnoxious, so you tone it down at dinners and parties. They think you’re too much of a softie, so you hide your tears when they say something negative about you and pretend to have thicker skin than what’s really there. Before you know it, you’ve altered so much of yourself that you don’t even know who the hell you are anymore.
Take a stand. Whoever ‘they’ may be to you, be aware of how much you’re compromising for them. If you can no longer breathe the same way around them, it’s time to show them the door.
Cannibalism is not so unusual in the deep sea, especially for squid,
but until recently the diet of Gonatus squid was largely unknown. By
using ROVs to make observations of these squid in their natural habitat,
scientists now know a great deal more about their feeding behavior.
A
recent paper by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison reveals that the diet
of the two similar Gonatus squid species—Gonatus onyx (bttm image) and Gonatus
berryi (top) — have a higher than expected incidence of cannibalism.
Hoving is a
former MBARI postdoctoral fellow and is now with the Helmholtz Center
for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; Robison is an MBARI senior scientist
and midwater ecologist.
Read more about this new research in our news story:
