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Who wants their photo taken by an Octographer? Tag some friends ;) To promote their water-resistant camera, @Sony recently teamed up with the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand to teach an octopus named Rambo to take pictures of visitors from inside her tank. The camera was mounted on her tank “When we first tried to get her to take a photo, it only took three attempts for her to understand the process,” said one of the trainers. “That’s faster than a dog. Actually it’s faster than a human in some instances.” (via @PetaPixel) #octopus #sony
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Lots have claimed that this little Octo has inspired them to follow their dreams. Tag some friends if you agree. 😂 “Little #Octopus Climbing Over a Rock” song by @parrygripp
The bioluminescent octopus (scientific name: Stauroteuthis syrtensis) is really weird. Seriously, their tentacles’ lengths don’t match up (they can stretch out to around fourteen inches though) and they’ve got web connecting them and they look like disgruntled floppy umbrellas. They’re also very pretty.
Okay, so maybe the weird thing about them is not that they look like umbrellas, but that they glow! This is a pretty strange quality for an octopod, considering the only other times anyone’s ever heard of these shenanigans were with two other species that had glowy rings around the mouths of breeding females (that’s actually really weird too, maybe I should have written about that).
They have about forty suckers called photophores that should be your average octopus suction-cup, but instead are genetically modified through evolution to do less suctioning and more glowing. They still have multiple traits of normal suckers, apparently, but a lot of the muscles usually found in them were replaced by cells to aid in bioluminescence instead.
The light fades out toward the end of the row of photophores and is supposedly used to scare off predators but also lure in prey. The other idea is that they use it to communicate, which sounds awesome because some of them some of them do blink their lights and twinkle like Christmas lights (that might be a little bit embellished, but you get the point), and it just sounds beautiful and these guys are awesome I rest my case thank you and goodnight
It’s a special treat to spot a red octopus while tide-pooling, but careful not to touch it. Red octopuses have venom to kill prey and sharp beaks to break open shells. These adaptations help them secure food…and discourage handsy tide-poolers!
