Love is a Many-Tentacled Thing

[Nay]

I've heard that the females die largely because they haven't eaten and just gave life to thousands so is too weak to be able to eat. I could also be a biological thing that shuts down but in the wild, they're usually prey to something else before that happens.
Pretty extreme parenting.

 

[JRO]

I've heard that the females die largely because they haven't eaten and just gave life to thousands so is too weak to be able to eat. I could also be a biological thing that shuts down but in the wild, they're usually prey to something else before that happens.
Pretty extreme parenting.

They did a special on the Discovery Channel (I think) that went through the life cycle of an octopus.

At the end of the show it showed three or four cod slowly taking apart an octopus (quite literally limb from limb) that had just finished tending to her eggs.

Very interesting show.