In March 2007, the marine biologists, headed by Bruce Robison from the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, used a remotely-operated
vehicle to visit a deep sea site in the Monterey Submarine Canyon off of
central California. At 1,397 meters (4,583 feet) deep they came on a
female Graneledone boreopacifica protecting a brood of its eggs. A month earlier, when the ROV had visited the same site, the octopus hadn’t been there…
This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is Ansell! Ansell is the matriarch of our largest free ranging ring tailed lemur group. As you can see, she is still the same sweet and loving mother who enjoys spending time with her many offspring.
