Comment on Squid Checkups
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s an octopus.
Squid can’t be kept capitive they die within a day. And only octopus have the flexibility to change into “a rock”.
Also the conditions these octopus are being kept in are horrible. An octopus needs a cave, and without it it gets stressed and starts self harming.
Source: I worked in a lab studying octopus and cuttlefish
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you know why squid died in captivity?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They move very quickly. They tend to quickly kill themselves by bumping their heads into aquarium walls.
If they don’t die from bleeding, trauma, or infection, or stress, they tend to die pretty quickly from asphyxiation. As whenever they bump into the wall, they get suprised, and spray ink, in an aquarium, the ink stagnates and blocks them from breathing properly.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 months ago
world’s dumbest cephalopod inks itself and chokes to death. more at 11.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 2 months ago
World crulest animal puts other animals in captivity and then calls them dumb for showing their natural behaviour in a completely alien envirment. More at 11.
Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
what?