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Octopuses are going to kill us all someday
I had a biology teacher that told us this story about an octopus at an aquarium in Australia. The staff were concerned because their population of crustaceans kept disappearing. No bodies or anything. So they checked the video feed to find out what’s up.
Across from the the crustacean tank was a small octopus tank. This little fucker squeezed out of a tiny hole at the top of his tank, walk across the hall, and get into the crustacean tank. He would then hunt and eat. After he was done, he crawled back out and get back in his tank
Here’s the kicker: security guards patrolled the area. The staff realized that the octopus had memorized the security’s routine. It would escape and be back between the guards’ round.
My friend who worked at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska had a similar story. Rare fish were disappearing, they suspected theft, and so set up a camera. An octopus was unlocking the top of its tank, walking across the suspended walkway, unlocking the other tank, eating his fill, re-locking the other tank, then re-locking its own tank.
I can’t remember what zoo this happened at, but there was another octopus somewhere who was unscrewing a water valve in the room where its tank was located and routinely flooding the place. The staffers had no idea what it was until they filmed the octopus caught in the act.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! But, sir, it has already released itself!
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My dad worked in a lab and one of the rooms had a tank with an octopus in it. If they didn’t go play with the octopus he got bored and would climb out of his tank and steal the paperwork off the desks, and drag stuff into his tank to let the scientists know he was upset with them.
Octopus urban legends.
Davy Jones is the real deal
I welcome our new octopus overlords
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What on Earth is this?
The best
This appears to be some type of Pacific Sea Cucumber, but the follower who has been helping me can’t find a scientific name for it. It often shows up under the name ‘oh ikari’, but that doesn’t appear to be an official name.
The weird frondy bits are oral tentacles, which are modified structures similar to the tube feet seen in other echinoderms like sea stars and sea urchins. The oral tentacles filter food particulates out of the water (algae, minute aquatic animals, or waste materials - yum) and are used to channel them into the animal’s mouth ones at a time.
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~ Mating ~
Photo from Pacific Whale Research
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Pom pom crabs and sea anemones have their own tiny cheer squads. The crabs wave the stinging anemones around to defend themselves against predators, while the anemones collect food particles they can feast on after sharing with their crab besties. Source
Also if one of their crab friends loses their anemones they will share!
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The Greenland Shark is a prehistoric shark, it has an extra gill slit than the modern day shark, so it comes from another era. It lives thousands of feet on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, so very few people know about it. The Greenland Shark is known to live up to 200 years old. Parasites latch onto the eye of the shark and feed off the tissue of the eye, rendering the shark blind. But they have no problem hunting for food, they have incredible smell and, like most sharks, they can sense the vibrations that prey give off.
Cutie prehistoric shark! (Except for the eye scream part).
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Photo:Tamandua and branch by Tambako the Jaguar http://flic.kr/p/KETEcZ
The Goblin shark extends its jaw way out in front of its body, then snaps it back to catch food. The jaw is suspended by ligaments, and not connected to the skull.
Nomph
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