Recently tried drawing @riftist‘s axolotl priest, Morgan. Made him look like an old lady with sick gill hair instead. Oops. Still, a good occasion to try out some acrylic inks!
Cirrate octopods, cephalopods
known as the dumbo octopuses
are among the largest invertebrates of the deep sea. These organisms have long been known to lay single, large egg capsules on hard substrates on the ocean bottom, including cold-water octocorals. Although
juveniles have previously been collected
in the midwater, cirrate hatchlings
have so far never been observed. However, researchers has been able to locate a dumbo octopus eggs in a submarine mountain at 1,900 m, and have discovered that they look and act like adults from the moment they hatch.
The egg capsule is comprised of an
external egg case as well as the chorion
and developing embryo. Development
in cirrates proceeds for an extended
time without parental care
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Dumbo octopus hatchling, with opened egg case attached to octocoral Chrysogorgia artospira collected at 1,965 m depth on Kelvin Seamount, Atlantic Ocean.
The baby dumbo octopus behavior shows that cirrate hatchlings possess all morphological features required for movement via fin-swimming, for visually and chemically sensing their environment, and for prey capture. The presence of a large internal yolk sac reduces the risk of failure at first feeding. This is enough evidence that dumbo octopods hatch as competent juveniles.
Cold-water octocorals appear to be critical in cirrate life cycle, and their destruction by bottom trawling or mining will impact populations of mobile animals like the charismatic dumbo octopods
Crabs (Gecarcinus ruricola) arrive from the surrounding forests to spawn on Playa Giron on the eastern side of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
So my Grandma apparently is running a plant hospital and rehabilitation center. She can get anything to grow abundantly, so in the past few decades people have literally started dropping off sick and dying plants to her and she would nurse them back to health and return them. She only charges a single clipping from each of the plants she nurses. 🌱🌿🍃I’m so proud of my Plant Doctor Grandma! 😌
This is amazing! Does she take notes of her work?
Yes she does. She has a whole journal that details care for certain diseases and plants. She takes it so seriously.
Does she share her notes at all? I want to get better at recognizing the frailties of plants in different conditions and if they are public at all I would love to read your grandmother’s work.
I will to her about getting her plant research published. She has the funniest notes in there too. Reminders about which plants belong to who, Recipes for natural bug-be-gone, and elaborate descriptions of blooms and even some pressed flowers in there. She’s so important in our community and she also grows sugar cane and vegetables she just gives away.
This is incredible.
She says she has over 250 potted “tenants” at her home right now. Between 30 to 40 belong to other people and she’s just nursing them. And countless “permanent residents” in the ground.
