Our own TPERP Mary won Honorable Mention in the recent California Ocean and Coastal Amateur Photography Contest with her octopus photo. You can see her photo as well as all the other winning photos on the California Ocean and Coastal website. Nice job Mary! Continue reading Congratulations Mary
While we aren’t going to show you cat videos or other pet videos (you can find those for yourself all over the internet), we can share a different kind of animal video to get your day started off right. The Living Coast Discovery Center in Chula Vista released a video showing off their octopus babies. These is the Two spotted Octopus that we find in … Continue reading Octopus Babies
Octopuses, squid and other cephalopods are colorblind – their eyes see only black and white – but their weirdly shaped pupils may allow them to detect color and mimic the colors of their background, according to a father/son team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. Read more… Here’s a link to another interesting article talking about the brain of an … Continue reading Did You Know – Octopus Tidbits
Last Saturday Nicole, the Scientific Program Coordinator, took the new TPERPs on a tidepool walk. During that walk, an octopus was nice enough to show itself to the TPERPs. Nicole talked about how the octopus is a solitary animal, which is why you never see more than one in a tank at an aquarium. The subject of how they mate came up (and we leave … Continue reading Tidepool Tips – Octopus Mating
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