At first glance, I thought it was an epiploon or omentum, but no, it’s a lovely octopus mother tending her brood. Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.
To me one of the saddest things in nature is how short their lives are.
Tigger_the_Wing, Can Fly (provided xe uses an aeroplane)says
To me one of the saddest things in nature is how short their lives are.
I agree. To have developed intelligence to such a degree and have no time in which to do anything with it? So sad.
I wonder what would happen if we genetically engineered some of them to have lives as long as ours…
Trebuchetsays
To me one of the saddest things in nature is how short their lives are.
They’d be our masters if they lived longer.
marcussays
I, for one, would welcome our cephalopod mothers…er… masters.
DLCsays
My mother has been gone these last 8 years. I miss her. I have no mollusc nearby so I’ll settle for hugging her memory, as there is regrettably no afterlife for her to be happy in.
StevoR : Free West Papua, free Tibet, let the Chagossians return!says
Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.
The nearest molluscs to me right now are snails and I rather doubt they’d appreciate that!
otrame says
To me one of the saddest things in nature is how short their lives are.
Tigger_the_Wing, Can Fly (provided xe uses an aeroplane) says
Trebuchet says
They’d be our masters if they lived longer.
marcus says
I, for one, would welcome our cephalopod mothers…er… masters.
DLC says
My mother has been gone these last 8 years. I miss her. I have no mollusc nearby so I’ll settle for hugging her memory, as there is regrettably no afterlife for her to be happy in.
StevoR : Free West Papua, free Tibet, let the Chagossians return! says
The nearest molluscs to me right now are snails and I rather doubt they’d appreciate that!
Good thought though I guess.
@5. DLC : My sympathies.