{"id":1632,"date":"2010-09-01T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:08:01","slug":"giant-pacific-octopus-at-sea-life-aquarium-lays-thousands-of-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/local-news\/giant-pacific-octopus-at-sea-life-aquarium-lays-thousands-of-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pacific Octopus at Sea Life Aquarium Lays Thousands of Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"sunsetbeachclub\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/local-news\/giant-pacific-octopus-at-sea-life-aquarium-lays-thousands-of-eggs\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1633\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pulpo-Gigente-del-Pacifico.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1633\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1633\" title=\"Pulpo Gigante del Pacifico\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pulpo-Gigente-del-Pacifico-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Pulpo gigante en Sea Life Benalmadena\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pulpo-Gigente-del-Pacifico-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pulpo-Gigente-del-Pacifico.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No messing with this Fella!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you have been to the Sea Life Aquarium in Benalmadena Marina, you will have had the chance to meet one of their star attractions: a giant pacific octopus weighing in at an amazing 15 kilograms! I actually took my family a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that this creature is impressive; every time it moved around the tank, water spilled out over the top \u2013that\u2019s how big this thing is!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I digress\u2026\u2026 Apparently, last weekend, the octopus in question laid thousands of eggs; she\u2019s going to be a busy mum over the next few weeks as she protects the eggs and keeps them oxygenated until they hatch. Once they hatch, the babies which will measure between 3 and 5 millimetres will be kept in quarantine so that keepers at the aquarium can feed them, thereby, increasing survival rates.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an interesting fact: the giant pacific octopus is the largest of its species; the largest specimen found measured 9 metres and weighed a staggering 272 Kilos! No messing with him! Wow, it\u2019s like something out of a Jules Verne novel.<\/p>\n<p>The octopus is considered a highly intelligent creature with a great capacity for learning; they have been known to take tops off containers, make their way out of man-made labyrinths and, of course, predict football results!!!! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet If you have been to the Sea Life Aquarium in Benalmadena Marina, you will have had the chance to meet one of their star attractions: a giant pacific octopus weighing in at an amazing 15 kilograms! I actually took my family a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that this creature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[238,154,312,927,237,926,831],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-activities","tag-benalmadena","tag-family","tag-giant-octopus","tag-kids","tag-sea-life","tag-selwo-sea-life-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}