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zBrown

Ice climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 18, 2018 - 02:06pm PT

'SUICIDAL' OCTOPUS MOMS GATHER AT HOSTILE UNDERSEA ROCK TO LAY EGGS THAT DIE IN HEAT


http://www.newsweek.com/suicidal-octopus-moms-gather-hostile-crevice-lay-eggs-die-heat-891386
monolith

climber
state of being
Apr 18, 2018 - 02:15pm PT
And on the other hand, an octopus mom that tends her eggs for 4.5 years, eats nothing, and dies after they hatch.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-deep-sea-octopus-mom-20140729-story.html

skywalker1

Trad climber
co
Apr 18, 2018 - 05:59pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

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zBrown

Ice climber
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2018 - 06:18pm PT
A veritable plethora of Octo_Facts

Who woulda known?

I'd say more but I'm under a pretty brutal nonDA with The OctoPussyGalore org.






neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 18, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
hey there, say, zBrown, and all... very interesting stuff...

i always loved watching stuff on these critters, since i was a kid...

i like that one octopus that pretends to be fish...

[Click to View YouTube Video]
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 18, 2018 - 11:42pm PT
hey there say, excon... that was a neat video, thank you... i knew only a bit about them...

thanks, so much... did not know about their neat tricks, :O :)
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Apr 19, 2018 - 06:57am PT
Cephalopods are really the coolest creatures on the planet . It's amazing how smart they are for such a short lived creature.
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Apr 19, 2018 - 07:47am PT
And lets not neglect a shout out to the totally awesome Vampyrotuethis Infernalis. (miscategorized as a squid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4U0vG2bxy0

hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Apr 19, 2018 - 09:07am PT
i'm now a fan! and i'm a boy
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Apr 19, 2018 - 09:13am PT
There’s a vid floating around (sorry) on Facebook, or so I’m told, about a family that rescues a
stranded octopus. The next day they returned to the spot they put the little guy/gal back. As
soon as they arrived it came up to the water’s edge and hung out with them for like an hour!

I might have to stop eating pulpo, and calamari if I’m gonna be consistent.
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Apr 19, 2018 - 11:26am PT
They are far too intelligent to eat and definitely can have personalities IMO.

I started as a marine biologist in college. A class mascot octopus we had "Squiggy" definitely recognized individuals and was a master escape artist in terms of trying to keep him in his tank. Even duct-taping the lid down didn't stop him. He would dismantle the pump system, crawl up through the tube and be sitting on top of the tank with his "chin" on a tentacle - for all intensive purposes he appeared to be impatiently waiting for his morning meal. It was, unfortunately, his undoing when he pulled that stunt on a weekend when no one came around to put him back in the tank.


Edit to add: Squid aren't exactly joining the octopus at Harvard- so you can keep eating calamari.
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Apr 19, 2018 - 12:39pm PT

We followed one of those mimics ^^^ for around 20 minutes last August in Indonesia. Even better, it was against sand so we could watch it pretending to be a skate or a ray. Usually when you follow an octo, they duck into something and are gone. But in the Lembeh Strait, there is no where to hide.
We also saw some Blue Ring octos which I found later, are fatal. Really small critters, I got close to see. oops.

The Blue-ringed octopus is only the size of a golf ball, but still carries enough poison to kill 26 humans in minutes. uwlax.edu

Squid are cool, I like the way the orient their direction and change colours together as a school.

here's a couple, facing the same direction and same colour, but I have seen dozens do this.

neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 19, 2018 - 04:28pm PT
hey there, say...


yes, i love it! more good stuff and links, here now, to...

also:
as to this quote from justthemaid:

Apr 19, 2018 - 11:26am PT
They are far too intelligent to eat and definitely can have personalities IMO.

I started as a marine biologist in college. A class mascot octopus we had "Squiggy" definitely recognized individuals and was a master escape artist in terms of trying to keep him in his tank. Even duct-taping the lid down didn't stop him. He would dismantle the pump system, crawl up through the tube and be sitting on top of the tank with his "chin" on a tentacle - for all intensive purposes he appeared to be impatiently waiting for his morning meal. It was, unfortunately, his undoing when he pulled that stunt on a weekend when no one came around to put him back in the tank.

that must have been something to see... sad, that he was, the critter,
was alone that weekend... :(

say, great to learn about what you did in college! wow!

also, john:
i just read one of the link, before you posted, that mentioned that
blue ring octopus, ... had never heard of it, before...
thank for sharing...


wow, we learn so much here at the ol' taco... :)
zBrown

Ice climber
Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2018 - 07:36am PT
A controversial study has a new spin on the otherworldliness of the octopus


Octopuses are strange, smart creatures that certainly seem alien—what with the tentacles, camouflage, and shape-shifting skills. Still, the idea that they actually came from outer space would seem to fall strictly into the realm of sci-fi; an update of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, say.

But in these interesting times, real life reads like fiction. Recently, a group of 33 scientists worldwide—including molecular immunologist Edward Steele and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe—published a paper suggesting, in all seriousness, that octopuses may indeed be aliens.




https://qz.com/1281064/a-controversial-study-has-a-new-spin-on-the-otherworldliness-of-the-octopus/
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