Canadian diver captures footage of the cephalopod drawing closer and closer until it fully embraces her
For outsiders, scuba diving in the frigid waters of the northern Pacific can seem daunting: limbs quickly go numb without the right equipment, and unlike the sparkling blue of the tropics, the water has a gloomy, greenish tint.
A high school teacher in the town of Campbell River, Humphreys was eager to show a visiting friend the region’s underappreciated beauty. Her camera captured the curious cephalopod drawing closer and closer, its tentacles widening until it fully embraced her. Throughout the encounter, the octopus maintained its deep red colour, never taking on the greyish tone of a fearful or aggressive cephalopod.. Within days, it had received tens of thousands of views. On a recent trip to the grocery store, she was stopped in the aisle after someone spotted “the octopus lady”.
But their lives are also marked by a grim and tragic cycle. They live far longer than other species, often reaching five years, but females care so intensely for their eggs it costs them their lives. A mother will care for her hundreds of thousands of eggs with such intensity that she forgoes feeding herself in order to gently blow water over them to prevent algae from building up. She survives off her own fat stores until she succumbs to starvation.
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