Burning Man organizer clears a couple things up
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters.Off the coast of California is an unusual"octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth.
of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, the lead researcher for this work."So it's regionally important and we still know very little about it. How many more of these are there?"Scientists found this site about five years ago, when a submersible vehicle got sent to explore some underwater hills around Davidson Seamount, a submerged mountain off the coast of central California that once was a volcano.
"It really kind of blew my mind because it is so drastically different and they're taking observations in the exact same places that we had been looking at," says, with the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire, who visited the Costa Rica site in 2014.
The researchers mapped an area the size of a few football fields in detail, installed a time-lapse camera that watched octopuses continuously, and visited individual octopus nests again and again while monitoring water temperatures with probes. "The females only nest in warm sites. As far as we can tell, we could find none in cold waters," says Barry."There are plenty of nesting sites available, but they don't nest on just any bare rock. They only choose those sites where there's a nice warm pool. And in fact, if one female leaves, we found that another one will jump in there within a couple of weeks."
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