I had the most amazing time when @lyriumglow visited me from NZ two months ago. We did so many fun things together. I took her to my local mini zoo, and we were somehow lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time throughout the entire day. We were the only people at the lemur enclosure when a zookeeper passed by and asked us if we wanted to feed the lemurs. So we got these adorable babies all to ourselves ♥ We also stroked fallow deer and got intensely nibbled by horses.
Generally, male octopuses have an arm modified to deliver a packet of sperm. They insert this arm into the females’ mantle and deposit that sperm. They often try to stay as far away from each other as possible because cannibalism is always a possibility. In the video above, the octopus are mating beak-to-beak— which is very strange, but very cool. So cool that we wrote paper about it.
An epic fight between an octopus and an eel led the snorkeler at risk, as the frightened and defeated eel started swimming directly at him with its jaw open.
If you watch it closely, you can see that the eel managed to tear off one of the octopus’s arm.
