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It is interesting that Octopi die after laying their eggs - a 1-1.5 year lifespan in most, a little more in the large ones. I makes me curious if octopi went t
by aurizon 5y ago
It is interesting that Octopi die after laying their eggs - a 1-1.5 year lifespan in most, a little more in the large ones.
I makes me curious if octopi went through a period of overpopulation(for their niche) that lead to many starvation - abundance - starvation cycles until gene smarts capped their life span - else we be up to our gunwales with long lived octopi they breed very prolifically... a die young cycle.
- willcipriano 5y agoYou'd think being able to lay eggs twice would be a massive advantage for a individual set of genes.
- aurizon 5y agoYes, octopi are smart as well as prolific, with multi seasonal reproduction they would suffer extinction through over population. Even 2 seasons is a lot of new larvae in the seas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#:~:text=Octopuses%20have%20a%20relatively%20short,lifespan%20is%20limited%20by%20reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#:~:text=Octopuses%20ha....