Hank, meet Henry. Henry, meet Hank! These two are so funny, they have become the most unusual pair. Every morning before the Aquarium opens Henry goes inside and sits on the octopus’s tank. The octopus is just as interested in Henry and Henry is with him. #BFF
Q:Can you cuddle squids? Like, would they like that? Is that an ok thing to do? B/c I really love them and they look so soft and I really want to hug them.
I am 100% with you on wanting to hug squid and cuttlefish like my cats but we can’t because they have squishy bodies and very delicate skin which is easy to damage, leaving them vulnerable to infection. So sadly, it’s pretty unethical to hug them. Cuttlefish also have delicate cuttlebones which if you hug hard enough, can break. This is a struggle cephalopod biologists face every day, but we can not waver. Just talk to them and look at them then go home and hug a cat or dog. Octopuses are more touchable, but it’s best to let them touch you, not you touch them. Their suckers aren’t as delicate as their skin so if they hug you that’s somewhat kosher (but be careful sometimes they get curious and explore by biting with their extremely sharp beaks so that’s a risk you need to be willing to take if you accept an octopus hug).
We can safely say that one thing you would never expect to see in a car park is a live octopus.
You could probably argue that you there is a slight chance you’d see one if it was an aquarium car park, but even then the chances are slim to remote.
However, this octopus managed to get lost somewhere along its journey and ended up slap bang in the middle of the concrete floor of a parking garage in Miami Beach, Florida.
Actually, it wasn’t his fault – it was actually this week’s supermoon that was to blame as it caused higher tides.
Visitor: The octopus was caught up in high tides as a result of the supermoon (Facebook/Richard Conlin)
James Thomas explained to the Miami Patch: ”Due to the flooding underground or underground systems, as the tide rises you could have sea creatures making their way through the system (and) through pipelines.”
Florida resident Richard Conlin took the photos of multi-limbed visitor, who revealed that there was a happy ending.
He wrote on Facebook: “Security from the building filled a bucket with seawater, rescued it and placed it back in the bay.
”I spoke to them this morning and they said they believe it got away safely.”
Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) This mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) lost several arms in battle. An octopus with fewer than eight arms is a rare view. As soon as an arm is lost or damaged, a regrowth process kicks off to make the limb whole again. Once an arm is regrown, it is basically as good as new. by GONNA_DIVE
This week, I decided to illustrate some races of the Squaluan civilization, they are all concepts of my story, except the last little ghost shark. He is a character I created recently, I think I will create a comic to reveal its history.
16 - A
Mokarran shaman and his mount, they are descendants of the hammer shark.
15 - A family of Galeechas merchants, they are descendants of the zebra shark.
14 - An Alopian wanderer, they are descendants of the
Thresher
shark.
13 - A Leucan Chef, they are descendants of the bull shark.
12 - A Glauca fisherman, they are descendants from the blue shark.
11 - A Galleon vassal, they are descendants of the tiger shark.
10 - Requiem lost his fins, but he does not remember what happened. Since then, he has been searching for them.
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:
Octopus Cares for Her Eggs by jimandlynn This photo was taken in a narrow cave. A female octopus will meticulously care for her eggs until the baby octopus hatch. And she never leaves in order to protect the octopus eggs.
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