Octopuses smell, taste and touch the world around them using their suction cups! That means our resident octopuses can tell aquarists apart by giving them a high eight. It’s pretty, dare we say, tenta-cool!
Tim Carpenter, a staff biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, says that
“in three to four years, giant Pacific octopuses can reach 100 pounds.”
“They have incredible capacity to grow very, very quickly: they can put on the pounds much more quickly than most other animals in the natural world. So they need a lot of food. Whatever they can get their tentacles on.”
Photograph by Wayne Panepinto
Source: youtube.com
Octopus wants my gauge for his garden
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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.
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.
