{"id":19125,"date":"2025-04-13T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-cautionary-tale-of-408-tentacles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:26:41","slug":"a-cautionary-tale-of-408-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-cautionary-tale-of-408-tentacles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale of 408 Tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his posts, Dr. Clifford tried to be clear about the difficulties of octopus ownership: the costs, the lack of sleep and the serious water damage to his home, which required major renovations. \u201cI did not want to perpetuate or romanticize keeping a baby octopus,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite those efforts, he was overwhelmed with requests to adopt a hatchling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you put it out there, then people will want it,\u201d said Vincent Nijman, an expert on the wildlife trade at Oxford Brookes University who has studied the role that social media plays in the exotic-pet trade. \u201cAnd if you say, \u2018Don\u2019t get it,\u2019 it\u2019s a bit like, \u2018Do as I say, don\u2019t do as I do,\u2019 right?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2d532c19\">Life support<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Dr. Clifford decided that he couldn\u2019t, in good conscience, send any of the babies to private homes. So he arranged for them to go to reputable aquariums and universities as soon as they were big and strong enough to travel. On April 21, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@doctoktopus\/video\/7360447636475923758\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that he had found homes for all of the hatchlings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next day, Terrance died. The family buried her in the backyard, beside a cluster of trees whose trunks reminded Cal of octopus tentacles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, they just needed to keep the babies alive until they could be shipped to their new homes. The odds were against them. In the wild, only a tiny fraction survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About 20 hatchlings died in the first month alone, Dr. Clifford said. (The causes of death included cannibalism and a temporary loss of power to the water chiller.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He began to worry about what his enormous, highly invested audience would think if he lost more hatchlings. \u201cThe pressure to keep the babies alive was pretty suffocating,\u201d Dr. Clifford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A local reptile expert and breeder, whom Dr. Clifford had befriended, became a lifeline, helping to care for and then even house the octopus babies when the Clifford home was being renovated. 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