As promised, here’s a video of the crazy toy-stealing octopus I work with!
This little dude has successfully tackled every single kind of enrichment we’ve given him, and fairly quickly too! I love having the opportunity to work with such an interactive (though completely rotten) animal. Given this animal’s intelligence, ability to solve puzzles, and food motivation, I am about to have to get really creative about making enrichment for him, and I am SO stoked about that.
Because sometimes what you need most is to watch a whole floofy family of French-Canadian skunks, mama and skunklings, bobbling down a lane in Pointe-Taillon National Park in Quebec. There they encounter a cyclist named Francois Arsenault, who remained very calm and still as they gave him a thorough sniffing, and then continued bobbling on their merry way:
The Nautilus captured a amazing footage off the coast of California earlier this week. The creature seems like a child toy, its disproportionately large eyes making it look like a Japanese manga hero.
But so you know, it is actually a Rossia Pacifica (stubby squid), which is pretty common in the northern Pacific Ocean
The stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) looks like a cross between an octopus and squid, but is more closely related to cuttlefish. This species spends life on the seafloor, activating a sticky mucus jacket and burrowing into the sediment to camouflage, leaving their eyes poking out to spot prey like shrimp and small fish. Rossia pacifica is found in the Northern Pacific from Japan to Southern California, most commonly seen up to 300m deep, but specimens have been collected at 1000m depth.
