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.
One of my pet peeves is when people say “save the bees” they almost invariably mean just honeybees, so please watch this to learn a little about solitary bees.
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Inky just didn’t want to live in captivity anymore, so he shimmied down a drain pipe at a New Zealand aquarium, and headed for the ocean.
“Bow before your new furry God”
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Pacific Wild Researcher Ian McAllister used an underwater housing to get this intimate portrait of a wolf wading through the intertidal zone on the British Columbia coast in Canada. This wolf took a break from eating herring roe to investigate the photographer’s half-submerged camera. Photograph by Ian McAllister
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Can you say “adorabilis”? The flapjack octopus is back on exhibit!
