Why are female octopuses known as the greatest mothers in the world?
Because no mother can do as much for her child as a mother octopus.
When the female octopus began to spawn, her death clock also began. Mother octopus can only conceive once in her life.
Female octopuses stay pregnant for 4-5 months and then start spawning if the water temperature is right. One by one, the eggs come out of their bodies. This process lasts for a month and thousands of eggs are released.
Mom gathered the eggs together and prepared them like bunches of grapes.
Now mother octopus has a challenge of preserving eggs.
She placed these bunches of grapes in a cave under the rocks in the sea. These flakes stick to the rock.
For the next 6 months, Mom went nowhere but the cave... Not even eating.
If the animal is close to it, the mother octopus may eat but not eat, probably because the carcasses and smell of the animal attract large marine animals, which is a threat to her eggs. During these 6 months, in addition to being protected, she constantly washed and flowed fresh oxygenated water around the eggs.
Now is the time for the baby to come out of the egg.
Now the mother octopus has become very weak. Whose body was once red; Now the body has become sluggish due to insufficient qi and blood, continuous fatigue. The skin becomes loose and there are wounds on the body.
It's a sign that her last moment is coming.
Now the layer of the egg is very thin, and the children inside have developed, capable and strong. They can swim and can hunt small kites to forage.
Then one night, under the right circumstances, the mother octopus used her nose to blow them out of the burrow and let them go free.
At the time of release, Mother Octopus knew what she was doing. She knew that after liberating the children, she would lose them forever. There would be no other purpose in her life. But watching the wonderful play of nature, the octopus mother was enthusiastic and bursting, liberating the children. Even if you haven't eaten for months, you are tired, and the little energy you have left is spent on it.
The mother octopus, now well rested, came out of the cave a few months later, came out of the cave a few meters away, and gave up her life.
This is the reality of the mother octopus's eventual sacrifice.
Hungry for so many months to take care of the results of thousands of eggs?
Only about 1% of children grow up to adulthood, and in many cases only one pair of children survives!
If it is a deep-sea octopus, it will protect the egg for 4.5 years. During this time, she also constantly brought fresh water to the eggs, constantly washing and guarding them. Eventually gave up his life.
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