Aging Octopus Finds Love at Last

[papau]

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Aging Octopus Finds Love at Last

By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- It looks like J-1 is in love. After meeting the very fetching and slightly younger Aurora, he changed color and his eight arms became intertwined with hers. Then, the two retreated to a secluded corner to get to know each other better. We're talking about giant Pacific octopuses here.<snip>

"We really were not sure he had it in him," SeaLife Center aquarium curator Richard Hocking said Wednesday.<snip>

With so little time left, J-1 wasn't going to let the sweet Aurora slip through his eight octopus arms. While she had to make the first move, he caught on quickly, especially for an octopus who was collected on a beach near Seldovia in 1999 when he was about the size of a quarter and has lived the bachelor life since.<snip>

If with many, many children (100,000 eggs), Aurora - who was about the size of a grapefruit when she was found in 2002 living inside an old tire in front of the SeaLife Center - will stop eating while she tends her eggs. She will weaken and die soon after they hatch.<snip>

www.alaskasealife.org

[madmax]

1. I can relate

"If with many, many children (100,000 eggs), Aurora - who was about the size of a grapefruit when she was found in 2002 living inside an old tire in front of the SeaLife Center - will stop eating while she tends her eggs. She will weaken and die soon after they hatch.<snip>"

Kids just suck the life right outta ya :evilgrin:

[WillParkinson]

2. All creatures want love...

Or at least cheap, meaningless suction-cupping to pass the night.

[KC]

3. That is

so neat, especially in a world filled with so much hate.


KC