{"id":2614,"date":"2014-07-30T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2014-07-30T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:49:56","slug":"deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-a-record-breaking-4-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-a-record-breaking-4-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea octopus broods eggs for over 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/octopus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2606\" class=\"wp-image-2606 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/octopus-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Deep-sea octopus protecting her eggs. (Photo credit: Robison et al.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/octopus-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/octopus.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The deep-sea octopus protecting her eggs. (Photo credit: Robison et al.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">A new study documents the case of a deep-sea octopus who tended her eggs for nearly 4.5 years, by far the longest egg-brooding period ever reported for any animal species. The octopus was first spotted a remote controlled underwater in a submarine canyon of the coast of California in 2007.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Researchers returned regularly until the eggs hatched in the fall of 2011, 53 months after the discovery. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">By contrast, the eggs of shallow-water octopus species usually hatch in 1 to 3 months. While this is the first time such a behaviour has been observed, the researchers believe it could be common in this species of octopus (<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #222222;\">Graneledone boreopacifica<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">) which is the most-abundant deep-sea octopus in the eastern northern Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0103437\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal <em>PLoS ONE<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 30, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bruce Robison, Research Division, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study documents the case of a deep-sea octopus who tended her eggs for nearly 4.5 years, by far the longest egg-brooding period ever reported for any animal species. The octopus was first spotted a remote controlled underwater in a submarine canyon of the coast of California in 2007.\u00a0Researchers returned regularly until the eggs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,170,113,917,1290],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/octopus.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}