The Selfless Mother of the Ocean 🐙💙 Female octopuses are some of the most devoted mothers in the animal kingdom. They guard their eggs for more than four years — all without eating a single bite. During this time, the mother stays close, protecting, cleaning, and gently aerating her eggs to help them grow strong and healthy. Her entire focus becomes the survival of her babies. She gives up food, energy, and eventually, her own life — all for the next generation. When the eggs finally hatch, he

The female blue-ringed octopus carries its 50-100 eggs, called it’s “clutch”, around for two months in a brood “basket” formed by her arms & web until they hatch, never eating, and dies shortly afterwards ⁣ ⁣ 🔍 The baby blue ring’s hatch smaller than a pea and walk around on the sea floor hunting within a day! Sometimes eating each other ⁣ ⁣ (so thank your brother or sister for not eating you 😅) ⁣ ⁣ 🥚 🔄🐙 What’s incredible is that the hatchlings will reach sexual maturity in just four months