Another Song That Got Stuck In My Head: Ocean Stars Falling from Homestuck Volume 8…
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AN Lembeh 31Dec10 (28) by pugletnelson on Flickr.
Y'all please take a moment to laugh at this ridiculous animal.
As his enrichment for the day, I put two Easter eggs, a seahorse dive stick, and a blue disk that clicks together into a fish bowl. My goal was for him to go into the bowl and find the pieces of shrimp that were hidden inside a few of the objects.
Instead, this crazy octopus simply grabbed ALL of the objects out of the bowl and carried them over to his little cave to keep to himself (will post video later). What a rotten, hilarious, and incredibly smart little nugget! 😂😝❤️
You guys….I totally missed World Octopus Day!
I’m going to take a hurricane pass on this one, because my work life has been consumed with hurricane prep the week before, worrying about my animals during the hurricane itself, and cleaning up from the aftermath of the hurricane, which makes for a very tired Amanda!
Thankfully, this little kraken and our other animals are did well in the storm-though our facility is a complete mess! We are slowly but surely getting everything back to normal. Our outdoor areas have the most work to be done, but we got really lucky. Preparation, backup generators, our emergency team, and the storm moving slightly off the coast were out saving grace.
So, long story short, Happy World Octopus Day from myself and this little cutie! Amazed doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel about these incredible, diverse, fantastic, and intriguing animals.
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North american researchers at UC Berkeley and California Academy of Sciences have found that the larger Pacific-striped octopus has a unique hunting strategy: Rather than pounce on its prey, it stalks and gently taps it to startle it. Often this drives it into the octopus’s waiting arms….
The larger Pacific striped octopus , is, despite its name, no bigger than a tangerine. Also uses a “slow bounce” to hunt. With its body flattened, and dorsal arms reaching forward, the octopus glides with sporadic bursts of hopping movements before it snatches up its prey of choice.
The octopus is rare, in fact, science has yet no even give it a formal scientific name (belong to Octopus genus). Is poorly understood, however, a recent study shown, they are somewhat social, they mate face-to-face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.
Octopus 🐙
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Lemur
Madagascar, 2015
