April 14, 2005

Giant Octopus! Giant Octopus!

Ah, motherhood: Aurora the Octopus lives to see her eggs hatch into cute little mini-Cthulhus.

"Right now the newly hatched octopuses are being fed every hour by electronic, automatic feeder," says Ed DeCastro, Alaska SeaLife Center aquarist. "The octopuses are on a diet of two types of copepods and ground-up krill." Mmm… copepods.

The Alaska SeaLife Center web page has lots of pix, and a link to a .wmv movie that I can't get to work.

Posted by rv at April 14, 2005 09:37 AM to news
Comments

I could have sworn it was "octopi".

Posted by: jay at April 14, 2005 11:45 AM

Marlin: It's just as well. He might be hungry.
Dory: Oh don't worry. Whales don't eat clownfish. They eat krill.
...
Dory: Oh look. Krill.

Posted by: chrism at April 14, 2005 11:56 AM