Amazing cephalopod mom
This octopus smashed the record for egg brooding. She spent 4.5 years protecting her eggs in Monterey Bay. You can read more about her here: http://goo.gl/AIBCzN
So of the choices at Science, this is my selection for image of the year, 2014. What’s your? http://goo.gl/oRmJwM
#ScienceSunday
December 28, 2014
I thought that octopuses only could live a couple of years or so. This one must be a particularly long-lived species.
December 28, 2014
The amazing thing is that female octopuses do not eat while guarding their eggs. The article said they were not sure how she survived, maybe eating the eggs that had gone bad.
And from what I read the smaller octopuses do not live as long as the big ones,so this is doubly amazing.
December 28, 2014
Some live much, much longer. And they’re considered one of the most intelligent species in the world.
December 29, 2014
Gary Ray R said it correctly. I do remember that the mother octopi do not eat while guarding eggs. By the time the baby octopi are ready to go off on their own, the mother’s body provides them nutrients. That being said it sounds quite incredible.
December 29, 2014
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralization
December 30, 2014
I’ve heard a great deal about how smart and playful these critters are; I’ve stopped eating them. I find the practice of eating them alive, whilst.. well; yuck… particularly disturbing. I’m sure you can google some pretty horrific images and videos, if that’s anyone’s thing; I find it repulsive. I think Octupi or Octopuses are considered correct plurals, but I’ll do the wiki link above, to confirm. Thanks for the very interesting post!
December 30, 2014
They are amazing creatures.
December 30, 2014
I wasn’t a bit surprised that a sci-fi movie or two have featured cephalopods as highest-order thinkers in marine environs; who knows what might be had no land been habitable on earth? I think that squids’ bioluminescent ‘communications’ are fascinating; someone ought to do a sci-fi flick in which all the flashing lights on UFOs are an alien species’ attempts to communicate with all of the underwater biolit critters… I understand that population wise, it just might be one of the most common ‘languages’ on earth..
December 30, 2014
rare avis: “someone ought to do a sci-fi flick in which all the flashing lights on UFOs are an alien species’ attempts to communicate with all of the underwater biolit critters…”
— Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
December 30, 2014
Zephyr López Cervilla
Wasn’t that about a Whale and a whale song? Or did it include other critters? I think I did see that 😉 But long ago…
December 30, 2014
rare avis, is there any significant difference?
December 30, 2014
Preferably with 95% confidence.
December 30, 2014
Zephyr López Cervilla
I think only that I’ve not yet seen it done; in essence, you are, indeed, correct.
I think the number of Biolume creatures in DEEP waters, who don’t breathe our atmosphere, tho, is amazing, and a unique theme for film..
I LOVE the Star Trek franchise, by the by; new & TOS days, in reruns. I liked JJ’s nuverse, too.
December 12, 2015
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