They only die because they dont eat while protecting the eggs, they just stay alert,but in an aquarium with no predators,they are less stressed, and us humans feed them directly in its nest, thoses ALL SURVIVED AND MATED AGAIN
The behavior of octopuses is actually so strange that when scientists discovered an octopus that does NOT die after mating, they got called out as frauds by the rest of the scientific community. It's still an animal that doesn't have a Latin name because of this: The Striped Pacific Octopus.
Well, that's just arrogant, especially considering how much of our oceans remain unexplored. It's like how science said cuttlefish weren't venomous until they found one that is: the Flamboyant Cuttlefish.
@@harrietharlow9929 And it has the spot on exact venom as the BRO (Blue Ringed Octopus). Also, they are super pretty, and can be easily kept as pets or bred in captivity. Just need to watch out to not get a danger hug.
@@harrietharlow9929 Yes, scientists make mistakes, but they do admit to making them. Who/what is arrogant, is religion and religious beliefs not changing for thousands of years... If not for science/scientists - where would humanity be nowadays?
The octopus has evolved. It was first known they would spend so much time protecting their eggs that they would die in the process- but now they’ve found a way to hatch their babies AND live to see the next day. Fascinating.
The more you know about Octopi, the more sense it makes that they could've come from space as frozen eggs on asteroids a long time ago. It made me think more about it when he said they can survive upto 8 years at freezing point
If you think about it the mother dying after her brood hatches also helps protect her young. Why chase down a small bite when there is a whole meal laying there.
*Sadly it seems like most animals in the wild go for the young, instinctively, when they see them... Even if there's a "whole" adult meal right next to the young... Some animals will actually NOT eat dead animals & will ONLY eat live animals so sadly the young would be ate up first... The way they clung to this thermal vent is insane but it does bring other life towards it, which could include predators but I've heard that sometimes there will be "Octopus Guards" stationed around to chase off any predators. Octopus' beaks can do some damage, even if they are small, especially 100s of them all at once. I believe sometimes they can even scare &/or annoy smaller sharks away.* *Of course we also believe that there are "Giant Octopus" just like the "Giant Squid" that was recently discovered... A "Giant Octopus", with the, insanely high, intelligence that Octopus have, is actually a kind of scary thing. Something the size of a small boat swimming around, while having a RAZOR SHARP BEAK that's the size of a 18 wheeler tire, is horrifying, to say the least.... Not to mention the MULTIPLE BRAINS it has! It always blew my mind to learn that Octopus have MULTIPLE BRAINS... One "Central &/or Main Brain" & 4 other brains at the end of their tentacles to rely messages back to the central brain.... Absolutely mind blowing.*
@@HowlingFrog From what I've read they don't, or at most 2 years for some of the larger ones. I have a feeling that he's confusing some terms and not really saying how it really is.
@@cchavezjr7Just looked it up, most eggs take weeks to months to hatch. The giant Pacific octopus has a long lifespan for an octopus - about three to five years. Octopuses in general usually live no more than a year! Weird script this guy was reading.
I remember a song by the Beatles singing about an octopuses garden in the sea that was in the 70s long before you guys had these deep sea gadgets maybe even the 60s lol
They're such fascinating creatures! Independent brains in each arm, 3 hearts, & blue blood! I made eye contact w one at an aquarium & saw intelligence!!!
I think countries with warmer climates have a higher rate of premature born babies. And colder climate countries have a higher rate of still not born after 9 months. So there is some truth in it boys and girls
@@dwaynehunt7095 Logically speaking there should have been tons of these in the pacific or in the South east asia oceans. After all there are many volcanoes here But I bet china already destroyed them Worse of all they destroy these habitats on oceans that DO NOT BELONG to them. and if the owning country dares to sail on their own seas the chinese governement will literally hurt the poor boats like what they do in the West Philippines Sea
@@dwaynehunt7095exactly, and it’s not racist that you pointed that out, it just goes to show how sadistic they are over there, and it’s not just them sadly doing that.
@@fuzzywuzzythebackyardigans2283 And they do this on other country's waters.. I bet there are thousands of these nests in like SEA area since there are tons of volcanic activity here but I bet china destroyed them all with their over fishing and illegally building bases on seas that don't belong to them like what they are doing here on West PHILIPPINES sea. And their government will have the audacity to harrass our own fishermen and that is the point. China overfishes since these waters are not theirs. They basically don't care they are currently destroying several coral reefs that don't belong to them as well..
The expiry after reproduction kind of makes sense in evolutionary terms, but I'm struggling to see how actual self-harm would arise. There must have been some kind of extreme population limit at some point. Maybe there was a huge problem with cannibalism of young immediately after they hatched, or some extremely important resource was in such short supply that population growth would have ended the species. There are plenty of things that prey on octopuses today, but maybe after one of the mass extinctions, they had to do population control on their own. Maybe that's how they survived so many of them.
Like us humans. After we reproduce, we only have time to grow up our children, and we start to get old. The reason for what we are here is just to reproduce the future generation.
Both octopuses and octopi are acceptable plurals for octopus. Of the two, octopuses is the simpler and more commonly used. The proposed plural octopodes is based on the plural of the Ancient Greek word from which octopus ultimately derives.
Octopi is no longer acceptable according to the dictionary. The most correct plural among marine biologists is Octopodes, though Octopuses is commonly accepted.
Just think - this process has existed from the beginning without human knowledge or understanding. They didn't need people. It's as if we think that because we learn about them that somehow that understanding contributes in some way to their existence. It doesn't. They existed without our knowledge from the beginning so we add nothing to the equation. But it's still fun to learn about what always existed.
Learning contributes to their existence by ensuring we don’t do something dumb and unknowingly contribute to their extinction. We as humans cocked things up so much because of ignorance of what we do, and ignorance of the impact of our actions on the larger picture. So, learning about how nature works is important so we learn how to not cock things up!
Exactly how I feel about breeding in captivity. It’s just human ego messing with nature and the natural order of animals. The cognitive dissonance in Man thinking they’re so significant that they get or interfere in this way because they don’t want to lose these beings of entertainment and revenue (zoo’s), but can’t see that they are THE reason that they’re vulnerable and disappearing in the first place, is staggering.
@@Itsactuallyimogene zoos are not the reason species are dying. The purpose of zoos is education and giving young children and their parents an emotional reason for caring about exotic animals at all. And zoos certainly are not the reason species go extinct. Over hunting/fishing and failing to adapt to rapidly changing conditions (caused and accelerated partially, but not wholly, by people) is the reason.
@@atronite I said MAN, not Zoo’s. As in, humans affecting the natural habitat and food supply of so many animals, ultimately having a major role in their extinction. Ffs.
Who'd have guess that the Beetles really were singing about the "Octopusses Garden" in the song by the same name, sung by Ringo Star in the Abbey road Album - cool!
Jfc it's just octopus, just like fish in plural form is fish. Also, don't be a jerk, mind your own business and don't act like you're better bc "words" make you uncomfortable. That's boomer snowflake behavior.
A science show should do us the courtesy to translate the units to those that the entire audience outside of America uses: metric. 52 F (?) = 11 C 35 F (?) = 1.7 C 2 miles - 3.2 km 10000 ft - 3048 m
U realize America is built off people who left your country? If they thought the metric system was better we would use it. Don’t worry about America we don’t worry about you
Imagine the day we discover the first colossal squid nursery. Heading into the deep ocean, and finding a massive tentacle garden. It would be something out of a horror movie.
I think we finally found an acceptable balance for like reminders! I missed the last couple because I found the reminder to be much too early to gauge how I feel about the whole episode, but reminding us again at the end along with a long enough end card to give us time to get back to RU-vid and interact with the video if we're doing something else (I'm currently navigating an emotional crisis on my own). I'm not sure how well received two reminders in a single video will be, but I do appreciate that your obligatory begging is short, and the extra editing that goes into making them custom to the video topic at hand. It feels very unobtrusive to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets caught up in letting my playlists just run while I'm doing chores.
@@kateapple1 It's pretty easy to look up statistics to see that simply asking/reminding an audience to interact with a video has a huge impact on how many will. Before getting upset with someone for doing something that you find "annoying", you REALLY need to ask yourself if it's HURTING you, and if so, why. It shouldn't literally harm you for a content creator to take a few seconds to give a gentle reminder to EVERYONE- the important part of this statement is the fact that this action is intended for not just you- to interact with the content if they feel like it. There's a reason so many people call these "please leave a like/sub" bits "obligatory begging". Do you like this channel? Do you like what the creators bring us? Then please realise that RU-vid is a job like any other, except you don't get paid by the hour. The only thing many of these creators have keeping a roof over their heads, and often the heads of an entire team of people, is the revenue made from people courteous enough to NOT skip ads, people generous enough to buy channel memberships or super thanks (or Patreon if the creator has one), and how much of a video gets watched. So, who's not skipping ads, and is there enough people buying channel memberships that this person's channel could go under tomorrow and they'd still be financially stable? Your comment leads me to believe that you're giving into selfishness, as I cannot think of any valid reason you should value your comfort of just a few seconds of watch time over the substantial and real effect that obligatory begging achieves. You need to be a better, more compassionate person. No one has hurt you by reminding folks that by interacting with the video, they quite literally help the creator. If you really have an issue with this, take it up with the entire online content creation community to be better people so creators don't HAVE to include obligatory begging to be successful to their greatest potential. Seriously, though. Just be grateful that the obligatory begging sections aren't obnoxious screaming, threats, or excessively vulgar. Also, you can try to be a bit more appreciative by recognising when channels put extra effort into making these sections custom to their videos, because that's extra editing, script writing, and recording in order to make obligatory begging flow better. Just please, if you're going to take ANYTHING away from this, if you even read it (because I HIGHLY doubt you will), just take a moment when you feel upset over someone doing something harmless in order to help themselves: Remember that these are real, living, feeling people who need to eat, sleep, and otherwise stay alive just like you. If you're jealous of what someone else has, remember that it can all be taken away in an instant. If you like what someone makes, please try to rejoice when they find healthy ways to live a better life, and take comfort that the better their life is, there's a very high chance that the content you already enjoy from them will only get better. Please try to celebrate when people are able to take better care of themselves, because that's honestly what this argument all boils down to. Your words insinuate that you view content creators as soulless machines whose existence revolves around your wants and desires, which if the world worked that way, everyone would be living in squalor, because there's no way we could collectively organise a way to financially support our neighbours the way that social media pays creators, and for a lot of creators, this is their only job. This IS their literal bread and butter, and you're arguing to take away from these people for your own enjoyment, and would probably throw a fit if someone you enjoyed watching announced they had to stop or step back from content creation due to needing to pick up another job just to support themselves. Be better. Do better. Find compassion within yourself, and if you REALLY don't like something that's honestly NOT hurting you, then give a bit of constructive criticism with the understanding that people are individuals, and allowed to not be you or cater to you, and thus do their own thing. Take time to truly realise that you are not the centre of the universe, and that you don't know the lives that these people live, and thus have no idea of the hurdles they may be attempting to cross right now. You have the potential to be a beautiful person full of compassion, and you could take comfort in knowing that your helping someone. Or, you can continue to be a bully with hints of control issues. Please choose the option that will leave the world a better place.
I don't understand why the mothers need to boost their metabolism when they are supposed to slow their metabolism to be able to last the long incubation.
As someone who is currently pregnant I would be terrified of a sped up pregnancy. Less time to prepare, less time to stockpile money and supplies, less time to prepare older siblings, less time to mentally prepare yourself for the birthing process, and worst of all.....and the part I specifically would find terrifying.....what the physical aspects of pregnancy would be like if sped up. Symptoms are already awful for most women. And we get aches and pains and whatnot too as the baby grows and our uterus expands. I can't even imagine what it would feel like if everything went double, triple, or even quadruple the speed it is now. I can only think about MASSIVE amounts of pain and exponentially more morning sickness. Blech....
13:50 I always found it interesting how corporations can completely skirt these laws and leave local governments/people paying the bill for habitat damage. Happens quite often, especially with oil spills.
I’m absolutely love octopuses. They’re so bizarre and cool. I know they’ve been on Earth for an extremely long time, but if you told me they were extraterrestrial in origin I would believe you. 😂
Thank god for scientist that risk their lives to study these things. I scuba dive but if I see something like this there ain’t no way in getting close in the fear they’re alive and they attack me.
Interesting and very informative and insightful in the sense I was always wanting to try and breed my pet octopus but was always told it is impossible and will never happen, but after seeing this, I instantly thought of ways to mimic thermal vents in my 250 gallon aquarium.
They really move their bodies in such a strange way. It’s normal for them I’m sure, but it’s unlike other sea creatures. They seem very alien to all environments and they can be in water or on land. I envy that.
Years to hatch? Years? Not so sure on that. Edit: yes I was mistaken in my initial post. As I replied in another comment here, I was busy doing household stuff, half listening to the video and thought they were talking about the typical giant pacific octopus, which has a period of about 7 months to hatch. When I am wrong, I admit my mistakes and learn from them. Have a great day everyone!
I doubted it too. Most octopus species take much less time, but that particular species can indeed take years. Like the video said, the cold water a depth probably slows them down.
In English, the plural form of words ending in -us, especially those derived from Latin, often replaces -us with -i. There are many exceptions, some because the word does not derive from Latin, and others due to custom (e.g., campus, plural campuses). Conversely, some non-Latin words ending in -us and Latin words that did not have their Latin plurals with -i form their English plurals with -i, e.g., octopi is sometimes used as a plural for octopus (the standard English plural is octopuses). Prescriptivists consider these forms incorrect, but descriptivists may simply describe them as a natural evolution of language.
The funny thing is that even National Geographic calls them Octopuses 😂 it’s likely because so many .., umm.. not so bright people … think it’s octopuses. More dummies, = more clicks. Sad tho
Ok, Ok...all are correct. . Sorry about all the years I spent in college over the last thirty years. My step mothers first degree was in English. Happy now?
LOL-"hopefully human pregnancy will only last two months, some day"...Spoken like a dude. The changes a woman goes through in 9 months are freaking insane---if it were cut down to two, it would be likely unbearable for a human body to go through such a transformation so quickly. I may seem unreasonably argumentative here, but as someone who has given birth, that comment did seem kind of silly. Also, thankfully, it is 9 months, since two months is nowhere near enough time to get ready for the absolute life change of having a kiddo. Hell, 9 months isn't enough time, either. Nothing can prep you for it, wondrous as it is. On another note, I love Octupi--they are bangin' Moms and such cool animals. Thanks for the vid.
Octopi is no longer the acceptable plural of octopus. As others mentioned, the prefix is Greek and suffix is Latin. The most correct plural is therefore Octopodes, though Octopuses is more commonly accepted.
2:45 wow! Even with the boosted incubation time, it still takes 2 years to hatch the new octopus baby! And without the boost i think they said 5 or 6 years. Thats an incredibly long time just to respawn!
