{"id":12075,"date":"2022-04-30T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T19:54:14","slug":"octopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/30\/octopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/30\/the_hidden_world_of_octopus_cities_and_culture_829916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Real Clear Science<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hidden World of Octopus Cities and Culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/authors\/kristin_andrews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristin Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-6-1024x850.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6-1024x850.png 1024w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6-768x638.png 768w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-6.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Roy L. Caldwell via AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-59667645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year<\/a>, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research examines animal minds and ethics, and to me, the phrase \u201coctopus culture\u201d brings to mind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/09\/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Octopolis and Octlantis<\/a>, two communities of wild octopuses in Jarvis Bay, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Octopolis, numerous octopuses share \u2014 and fight over \u2014 a few square metres of seabed. In these watery towns, octopuses form dominance hierarchies, and they\u2019ve started developing new behaviours: male octopuses fight over territory and, perhaps, females by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28085-octopuses-seen-throwing-things-may-be-using-shells-as-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">throwing debris at one another<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metazoan.net\/15-panocticon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/30\/the_hidden_world_of_octopus_cities_and_culture_829916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at RCS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Real Clear Science The Hidden World of Octopus Cities and Culture By\u00a0Kristin Andrews A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands\u00a0would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually. My research examines animal minds and ethics, and to me, the phrase \u201coctopus culture\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}