12-31-2022, 05:03 PM
I once caught a Giant Pacific octopus during a beach monitoring event in Washington State. It was in the low intertidal during a very low tide. After demonstrating it to fellow monitors I remembered it had a beak and eased it back into the water. The most salient thing to me about octopi, besides intelligence, it that their blood is copper based, rather than our iron. This helps them mitigate temperature and low oxygen extremes.