A look into the #REM #dreams of the #animal kingdom
If #octopus and #cuttlefish #dream, “it just kind of blows down the walls of what we think about humanity being so special,” behavioral #biologist Teresa Iglesias says. There’s still debate over what REM is even for. “No one really knows what the function of sleep is — non-REM or REM,” says Paul Shaw, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/a-look-into-the-rem-dreams-of-the-animal-kingdom/

We’re calling on you to reject the plan to build the world's first industrial octopus farm in Spain and ban octopus farming in the EU and around the world, including its import and financing. Octopuses are intelligent, sentient and fascinating animals. Let’s avoid creating more animal suffering for unsustainable and short-term human profit.
PETITION https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_octopus_farming_loc/

#ban #octopus #farming

Shimmering water intrigued scientists at a spot off the coast of California in 2018, where they made a staggering discovery: Far below the surface, an estimated 20,000 deep-sea octopuses had gathered, the largest congregation of the cephalopods ever found. Smithsonian Magazine explains why: https://flip.it/HkALvb
#Science #Animals #SeaLife #MarineLife #Octopus

Chocolate milk #octopus pop!
🤤💕🐙

New on the Animal Toy Blog. Blue-ringed Octopus (3D Picture Book Poisonous Creatures by Toys Spirits): https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/blue-ringed-octopus-3d-picture-book-poisonous-creatures-by-toys-spirits/

"The blue rings do have a notable error where the centre should be either yellow or brown depending on which part the body is. Because of that, I am unsure which species to identify this figure as"

#AnimalToyBlog #animals #octopus #toys #cephalopods

The Octopus Band!

#AI #AIart #Midjourney #Octopus

Ça faisait un mois que j'avais pas touché à mes crochets (si on exclut celui que j'ai sculpté). Hier j'ai enfin fini ce poulpe

#crochet #poulpe #octopus

Seen in New Jersey. #random #octopus #ThickTrunkTuesday

Seen in New Jersey. #random #octopus #ThickTrunkTuesday

This book was really beautiful. #bookstodon #BooksofMastodon #fiction #SciFi #octopus

Una petición de un grupo de lolis...

El dibujo original estaba ya bastante bueno, solo me encargue de pasarlo a digital y darle unos retoques.

Por desgracia se me olvido preguntar el nombre del personaje jejejeje

#LOLI #octopus

4) Octopuses are usually solitary and incubate their eggs for at least 5 years, sometimes up to 13 (!)

So it’s exciting that scientists have found “the largest aggregate of octopuses known anywhere in the world, deep-sea or not”, where octopuses are hatching their eggs in less than 2 years 🐙

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hot-secret-behind-a-deep-sea-octopus-garden/

#Octopus #OctopusGarden #Science #DeepSea

Vice: Thousands of Octopuses Gather at This Mysterious Spot. Now, We Know Why. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmdz/thousands-of-octopuses-gather-at-this-mysterious-spot-now-we-know-why #octopusgarden #techscience #Abstract #Science #octopus #OCEAN

Vice: Thousands of Octopuses Gather at This Mysterious Spot. Now, We Know Why. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmdz/thousands-of-octopuses-gather-at-this-mysterious-spot-now-we-know-why #octopusgarden #techscience #Abstract #Science #octopus #OCEAN

Thousands of #Octopuses Gather at This Mysterious Spot. Now, We Know Why.
The "#OctopusGarden" is the location of the largest gathering of octopuses anywhere on Earth, and new research has an explanation. An estimated 20,000 Muusoctopus robustus octopuses, also known as pearl octopuses, occupy this 823-acre site where they find an oasis of warm water that accelerates the growth of #octopus embryos, providing a boost to their survival, reports a new study. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xmdz/thousands-of-octopuses-gather-at-this-mysterious-spot-now-we-know-why

For those enamored of Octopuses.......20,000 pearl octopuses congregate two miles down off the California coast, to use hydrothermal springs to hatch eggs faster.
#Octopus
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/discovered-in-the-deep-octopus-garden-davidson-seamount-california-like-hot-tub-hatchery

Vice: Thousands of Octopuses Gather at This Mysterious Spot. Now, We Know Why. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmdz/thousands-of-octopuses-gather-at-this-mysterious-spot-now-we-know-why #octopusgarden #techscience #Abstract #Science #octopus #OCEAN

Deep sea #octopus nursery.

Why tens of thousands of octopuses cluster on the foothills of a giant underwater mountain, two miles down off the coast of California.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/discovered-in-the-deep-octopus-garden-davidson-seamount-california-like-hot-tub-hatchery

#142holdheap #nature

Discovered in the deep: an octopus’s garden in the shade

Two miles under the dark ocean off California, 20,000 pearl octopuses use the gentle heat of nearby volcanic springs to help their babies hatch faster

#octopus #news
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/discovered-in-the-deep-octopus-garden-davidson-seamount-california-like-hot-tub-hatchery?CMP=share_btn_link

Vice: Thousands of Octopuses Gather at This Mysterious Spot. Now, We Know Why. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmdz/thousands-of-octopuses-gather-at-this-mysterious-spot-now-we-know-why #octopusgarden #techscience #Abstract #Science #octopus #OCEAN