Outshone by Nature: Blanket Octopus
17 years ago
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Ganked from the journal page of frogsbreath here : Beautiful video of a largely-unknown octopus species, captured serendipitously by a maintenance ROV.
http://deepseanews.com/2009/03/tgif.....isted-octopus/
It resembles an octopus around the head end, but it's trailing a tremendous long veil patterned with leaves and eyespots. At the end of the video, part of the veil is dropped, apparently as a defense mechanism, and the arms flare out more of the veil like wings and shade its color to red in a warning display.
According to tolweb, the young collect the stinging tentacles of the man o' war and wear them for further defense.
There are more things in heav'n and earth...
http://deepseanews.com/2009/03/tgif.....isted-octopus/
It resembles an octopus around the head end, but it's trailing a tremendous long veil patterned with leaves and eyespots. At the end of the video, part of the veil is dropped, apparently as a defense mechanism, and the arms flare out more of the veil like wings and shade its color to red in a warning display.
According to tolweb, the young collect the stinging tentacles of the man o' war and wear them for further defense.
There are more things in heav'n and earth...
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