The giant Pacific octopus was very active again today! It was hanging out long enough for me to get a decent shot of one of its eyes.
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Is this a visitor from another planet? Very few aquariums in the world
are displaying this bizarre species, which we first exhibited in 2012.
Like
many cephalopods, bigfin reef squid use pigmented skin cells, called
chromatophores, to change color and pattern. Specific patterns and
colors are used by males and females during mating, to attract one
another. Each female lays 1,000-6,000 eggs, which take approximately
three weeks to incubate. After mating, the adults die. They can live as
long as 11 months.
