#Octopus #tentacle coolness 🐙 (at Island Bay Marine Education Centre)
lemur-conservation-foundation:
Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) have a very unique social structure within their groups. The female L. catta are the most dominant in this society. Unlike many other species of primates where males are more dominant, it’s the females that call the shots in lemur society. The females create a stable core in each group, while the males transfer from one group to another.
Since the females are on the top of the hierarchy, they get first dibs on preferred food items and can even be seen taking food right out of the hands of males lower in the hierarchy. Below, you can see Ansell (purple collar). She is on the very top of the dominance hierarchy in this group, and she keeps all the other lemurs in her group in line.
TOP TEN COOLEST SPECIES OF PRAYING MANTIS
1. Giant shield mantis
2. Giant Asian mantis
3. Giant African mantis
4. Ghost mantis
5. Jeweled flower mantis
6. Devil mantis
7. Orchid mantis
8. African devil mantis
9. Purple boxer mantis
10. Blue orchid mantis
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We got up close and personal with the octopus at the aquarium today! The kids learned a lot of stuff today and they got to explore with the creatures of the ocean. #sealife #sealifeaquarium #octopus #friend (at SEA LIFE Charlotte-Concord)
It’s clear that #GiantPacificOctopus is smart—smart enough even to outsmart their aquarists now and again. Webster recalls a time she was feeding Cordelia, an octopus whose name means “daughter of the sea,” while giving a behind-the-scenes tour. “I went down to grab another piece of food, and there wasn’t any left,” she says. “She had it in her arms. She had figured out where I kept her bin, and she had reached in, grabbed it and pulled it back out. They’re very smart, very intelligent creatures, so I had to learn to move the bin around.” 📝📸: @nationalaquarium
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lemur-conservation-foundation:
Looks like it’s cuddle time. #lemur #ringtailedlemur #conservation #endangered #lcf #cute #animals
🐙🍍One of my favorite photographers is back at it again with the pineapple stealing Octo ;) #Kleptoctopus 📸: musashi671 photography
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Video! The sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
Out there in the open ocean is a nudibranch sea slug that looks like a fish, and for the last five months I’ve been obsessed with it. I wrote an article about this fishy slug, called Phylliroe, back in November (link to original article here, which is also posted below). But despite all my best efforts (including harassing friends and colleagues) I wasn’t able to find a video. So I’ve been looking every few weeks ever since.
Kaj Maney*, an underwater videographer and owner of Dive Centre in Ambon, Indonesia, was rummaging through some old files when he found the video below. He had no idea what the animal was, so he asked for help on the Facebook group “Marine Creature Identification.” And once he realized he’d filmed a Phylliroe he sent the video to me. Kaj told me via email that “the funniest/saddest thing is that I had completely forgotten that I had ever filmed it!!” And it’s flat out the best wild Phylliroe video I’ve seen! …
(read more: Deep Sea News)
Yesss
I’ve been looking for videos of these guys for months now
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