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OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙

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OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙

@TheOctoNation

🐙 we work to inspire wonder of the ocean by educating the world about octopuses.

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OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙
@TheOctoNation
Apr 20, 2023
OctoNation's mission Is to Inspire wonder of the ocean by educating the world about octopuses. Our vision Is to be a global leader In wildlife education, research, and conservation. After reading @SyTheAuthor's "The Soul of an Octopus' In 2015, Sy mentioned that the octopus
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Jan 30, 2023
🛑STOP whatever you're doing and consider the fact that there's an octopus out there RIDING JELLYFISH and SECRETING CALCITE OUT OF HER ARMS. Yes, the Argonaut octopus exists and she's the coolest thing on your feed rn! Learn More: octonation.com/how-an-argonau… 🎥OneBreathDiver/IG
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Mar 28, 2019
@ someone and say hello! 👋 ⁣ Chris, an aquarist at @london_aquarium taught the little #octopus named inkling to wave! *squee!*⁣ ⁣ Boy is it hard to wave with no bones tho! 🐙😂⁣ ⁣ 1st Lesson: Waving 👋 2nd Lesson: WORLD DOMINATION 🌎 #animals #nature #scicomm #love
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@TheOctoNation
Nov 19, 2023
This. Never. Gets. Old. 🤩🐙🤯 🎥: ibrahim elhariry/IG  Chromatophores are small, pigment-containing cells controlled by an array of muscles and nerves.   These tiny, elastic sacs of color can expand or contract.  When a chromatophore is relaxed, the sac contracts, which
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Oct 6, 2022
Katherine Lu🥈Ocean Photographer of the Year 22 "A female blanket octopus gracefully gliding through the night. It was photographed under difficult conditions, low visibility from volcanic ash post the Taal volcano eruption and the eerie sounds of earthquakes rumbling underwater"
OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙
@TheOctoNation
Jul 29, 2023
Meet the boxing superstar of the sea, the Mototi [Moh-toh-tee] Octopus!   This charismatic species is known for striking a pose like a pro boxer—on its arms, front two curled, ready to roll with the punches! 🥊   🗺️ Born and raised in the South Pacific, it's locally known as
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Apr 30, 2023
⬇️ Which fact below surprised you? 🐙👀  🎥: @onebreathdiver/IG 🤩 The sand octopus is considered an “ecosystem engineer” because instead of shape shifting and color matching to its environment, it burrows (read: YEETS) itself underground.   While other octos might bury
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OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙
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Apr 1, 2023
Motherhood, for the octopus, is the ultimate sacrifice. 🎥: @AndreJohnsonPhoto/IG   Once she's found out a suitable den, she'll haul some rocks over to create a shield for her octo-nursery. And when it's time to lay her eggs, she'll flip herself upside down and cling to the
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OctoNation® World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club 🐙
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Feb 21, 2023
What do ya suggest we call this behavior? 📸: Erick.Higuera/IG The female argonaut octopus shown here is demonstrating impressive social behavior that you’ve most likely never seen before…  👀 Picture this: a bunch of fearless octo-mothers, who have been working their whole
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Feb 6, 2023
Say hello to the Tropical Bottletail Squid! #animals 🎥 @_bugdreamer_ Nicknamed “globitos,” by Spanish scientists which translates to little balloons! 🎈 👾 How little? Paper clip sized — smaller than a USB flash drive! (3cm/1.2in) 📎   Learn more: instagram.com/reel/Cm8If0vhH…
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Oct 6, 2023
Ever heard of a “big-eye jellyhead”? (Yup, that’s it’s actual nickname) 🎥: @deepseauwa Cirrothauma magna is a mysterious, deep-sea cirrate octopus. Cirrate’s are a suborder of octo with hair-like cirri on their suckers and epic body fins; however, they don’t do the whole
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Sep 6, 2023
🦑 Glass squids of the genus Leachia are basically living Invisibility cloaks, isn’t that wild? 👀 Look closely very closely— a cigar-shaped digestive gland, which is the cephalopod equivalent of a mammal's liver, can be seen through their clear tissue. 🔝 What’s even more
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May 25, 2024
Whoaaaa— have any of our ceph researchers seen behavior like this? 🥰🤯
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@aHEMandias
May 25, 2024
And octopus pretending to be cuttlefish.
Nick Volpe
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Apr 19, 2023
Can confirm 🐙🤩 anyone else?
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