Resumen de Octopus mum performs record-breaking brood
An octopus mother brooded her eggs for four and half years--the longest brooding period of any known animal. Egg-laying animals brood to protect their eggs from potential predators, ensuring they hatch successfully. Female octopuses also regularly blow water on their eggs to bathe them in the oxygen they need to survive. Bruce Robison and his colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California were surveying deep-sea animals in 2007 when they spotted a female octopus in a submarine canyon at the centre of Monterey Bay in the Pacific Ocean.
