YOU'VE HEAR OCTOPUS' GARDEN - BUT AN OCTOPUS CITY?

BIG THINK - OCTOPUS CITY OFF THE COAST OF AUSTRALIA


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The “city” was comprised of a series of dens made out of shells leftover from mealtimes, along with beer bottles and fishing lures. This shell city was founded upon some type of metal slab. It’s too old and encrusted for researchers to tell what it is.


Within and around it, the octopuses interacted, signaling to one another, protecting mates, making art out of leftover shells, starting fights, tossing out roommates, and ignoring undesirable cohorts until they went away. Sounds more like a college dorm than a city. At any rate, the results of this fascinating find were published in the journal, Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology. American and Australian researchers conducted it. Much like the cantankerous New Yorker, the gloomy octopus might be irritable due to the cramped conditions found in its murky metropolis.

HURRICAINES - MANATEES - and DISPLACED BEACHES - EARTH CHANGES

A double whammy of intense Hurricanes hit the southern United States in recent weeks, and if you're like me, you followed the news closely, and learned that the water these storms took up and deposited elsewhere created dramatic changes, such as whole beaches gone missing, displaced manatees that had to be hauled back into water, and many other earth changes.  I've seen articles that suggest that birds have relocated inland and so should people.  The destruction was expensive and had effected millions, be it that the power is still out or that their homes are ruined.  Yet another expert said these storms were good for our economy, since there will be employment in the rebuilding.


There are so very many links to explore about hurricanes.


Check these out! NATIONAL HURRICANE DATA ARCHIVE = NOAA


NOAA GOV

RECYCLING is GOOD FOR THE EARTH AND FOR THE OCEANS