An octopus’s stripes can act as a unique ID Finding may help us track animals in the wild, perform genetic studies. Kenna Hughes-Castleberry – Apr 26, 2023 3:10 pm | 23 ...

🐙. Roy Caldwell, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, first met Octopus chierchiae, also called the lesser Pacific striped octopus, in the mid-1970s in Panama.

The news exploded with the publication of the paper about this weird octopus, although Rodaniche’s contributions were rarely mentioned. Rodaniche died of cancer just five months after the paper was ...

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus showing stripes and spots. Richard Ross. Richard Ross feeds a grass shrimp to one of his Greater Pacific Striped Octopuses in the aquarium room of his home in Alameda.

The larger Pacific striped octopus uses unique prankster shoulder-tapping techniques to lure shrimp prey within arms' reach. Photo: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley In 1977, scientific divers discovered ...

But the larger Pacific striped octopus (LPSO) is different. For one, they live together in colonies. And mating is not only a safer proposition, it involves beak-to-beak “kissing.” Plus, females can ...

The team discovered that the Pygmy zebra octopus has stripe patterns as unique as human fingerprints, allowing even humans to tell them apart. They also found that after about two weeks of age, ...

Piero hopes to see a colony of Pacific striped octopus, one of the few species who actually work and live together instead of alone, like other Giant Pacific Octopuses.

Piero hopes to see a colony of Pacific striped octopus, one of the few species who actually work and live together instead of alone, like other Giant Pacific Octopuses.