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Look.
At these perfect.
Little.
PUMPKINS!!They are 1-4 day old Hawaiian Bobtail squid. Their silly little scooting jumpin’ bean selves are my favorite thing.
Bless their little hearts (3 hearts per squid of course)
<3 <3 <3
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted any octopus photos, so here are two hatchlings under a microscope an hour post hatch. This species has a pelagic stage for a few weeks before settling to the benthic stage. They are about 3mm long.
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Cuttlefish eggs incubating in soda bottles at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Isn’t it cool how they help the animals along like that I think so.
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lemur-conservation-foundation:
LCF is proud to announce their first birth of the 2016 season- ring-tailed lemur twins! Ring-tailed lemur matriarch Ansell gave birth to two healthy babies on March 20th. These infants mark Ansell’s fourth set of twins in a row! Generally ring-tailed lemurs give birth to one offspring, but twins are possible when ample food is present, as it is in managed populations.
Ansell and the infants, along with father Yuengling and five older siblings- Rogue, Allagash, Duffy, Goose, and Darwin- are living in one of LCF’s semi-free ranging forests, allowing them to live as naturally as possible.
The ring-tailed lemur is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List with a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future. LCF works with multiple Species Survival Plans (SSPs) to manage its breeding program and is the home of 51 lemurs, including 17 ring-tailed lemurs.
Octopuses reproduce only once; they put all of their energy into generating and caring for the many eggs. The octopus will find a den to lay her eggs. Following their hatching, she will not eat and will spend all of her time caring for the eggs by cleaning and aerating them. After they hatch, the mother shall die and the exact scientific reason for this is unknown. They evidently use up all of their energy while caring for the eggs and it’s believed that losing their eggs come as a psychological shock, It is generally agreed that octopuses are intelligent creatures and many scientists feel as though they see no purpose in life following their eggs hatching, that combined with the exhaustion results in them giving up and dying. The male also dies shortly after mating.
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