태평양 망망대해의 코딱지만한 아기 문어 한 마리 VIDEO:Ridiculously Tiny Baby Octopus Riding Ocean Trash Is So, So Sm

Ridiculously Tiny Baby Octopus Riding Ocean Trash Is So, So Smol

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | October 25, 2018 02:45pm ET

A baby octopus the size of a pea was hitchhiking on a piece of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean when Hawaiian researchers spotted it and scooped up the smol, smol cephalopod.

So smol.

Credit: Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park Hawaii

태평양 망망대해의 코딱지만한 아기 문어 한 마리    그는 태평양 망망대해의 플라스틱 쓰레기를 배 삼아  표류 중이었다. 하와이 환경연구원들은 그것을 발견하고는 "우와 문어가 너무 작아..손을 잡을 수 조차도 없어"하고 소리쳤다. 하와이 칼로코호코호우 국립역사공원에 의해 페이스북에서 공유된 사진들은 아기 문어가 쓰레기로부터 구출되고 플라스틱 통에 웅크리고 있는 그리고 그의 얼룩진 팔은 불룩하고 구슬프게 웅크리고 있었다. 아기 두족류는 해양 생물학자의 손가락 손 끝 만큼이나 왜소하다;  문어는 너무 작아서 사람 손가락으로 편안하게 안아 주지 못한다. 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Cheol Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

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Photos shared on Facebook by Hawaii's Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park show the wee baby rescued from the trash and huddled in a plastic tub, its spotted arms curled daintily under its bulging eyes and mantle.

In one of the park's images, the baby cephalopod is dwarfed by a marine biologist's fingertip; the octopus is too tiny to comfortably hug a human finger with all its arms[8 Crazy Facts About Octopuses]

Park researchers were monitoring coral reefs in August when they spotted the charismatic eight-armed stowaway on a piece of floating plastic debris, park representatives wrote on Facebook. After posing for a few pictures, the octopus was released "safe and sound in a small protected space" by a member of the Geoscientists in Parks dive team, according to the post (an image of the octopus recently went viral after the U.S. Department of the Interior shared it on Instagram earlier this week).

Even though baby octopuses are small, they can also be deadly (to other very small creatures, that is). A second tiny octopus, also found on the plastic trash by the Hawaiian dive team, was discovered while squeezing the life out of equally tiny prey — a baby crab — prompting a park representative to pose the question: "Maybe they aren't so cute?"

             Though tiny, this baby octopus is more than a match for an even tinier crab.

            Credit: Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park Hawaii

The babies were likely day octopuses (Octopus cyanea) or night octopuses (Callistoctopus ornatus), two species that inhabit Hawaiian waters, Sallie Beavers, a marine ecologist with the park, told the Associated Press. Day octopuses can grow to have an armspan measuring about 3 feet (80 centimeters), while adult night octopuses can have an armspan measuring up to 7 feet (2 meters), according to the University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web.

Octopuses are known for their intelligence, and their oddball biology is so unusual that it recently inspired a team of 33 researchers to report that octopuses were extraterrestrial in origin, their frozen eggs carried to Earth millions of years ago by icy comets. However, biologists scoffed at the prospect of alien octopuses — a hypothesis that has zero evidence to back it up, Live Science previously reported.

As one of the baby octopuses swam away from its human rescuers, it bid them farewell with a tiny squirt of ink, Beavers told the AP.

https://www.livescience.com/63927-tiny-baby-octopus-hawaii.html

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