They also can extremely clingy to their feeders in captivity. Like they will climb up on your arms with their tentacles and just hold it.
(For them it means they are “tasting” you because they taste with tentacles).
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Oh and they also squirt water at people sometimes! Some say it’s because they don’t like those people but I haven’t seen much suggesting that is true. It might actually be getting their feeder’s attention or just a sign of boredom.
If we could figure out a way to make it so they didn't die when they had sex, they'd probably rule the ocean.
Not all of them do, and the real problem is that the typically only live about six years anyway. That’s probably the bigger problem to solve.
It’s all that rage and hatred they have towards other fish driving them to an early grave.
True. Anger and stress usually lead to a lower life expectancy.
The point I was trying to make, though, is from some paper I read a couple of decades ago. Sorry, I can’t reference it, but it basically said that, once a species, such as ours, reaches a certain point of life expectancy, they can then start building what is basically considered, “legacy“.
Basically, we now live long enough that we understand that, for us to have any concept of long-term survival, we must make and build things that outlive us in both physically and conceptually.
That’s when they can start building empires because they stick around long enough to create culture and society and then civilization, because we’re finally living beyond a couple of generations, and we have a vested interest in passing down all of what we know and what came before that type of multi general preservation is what creates a culture.
Like Orcas - still not seeing their sea cities though, but they pass on knowledge and grandma stays around teaching, although she can't produce offspring anymore
That's what I call checks and balances
Or less, depending on species.
Yeah. Some only live between six months and two years!
Mario Kart 2^6^ over here!
Good luck throwing shit underwater you crustacy assholes
Timothy
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