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"Sighted at Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California, during 6 March 2016 a ""Tidepool Pre-Blitz"" event, a preliminary survey and practice run for the upcoming Nation-wide Bioblitz scheduled this coming May. This individual was first encountered exposed in a small pool during rising tide. It retreated to cover under a boulder but periodically reached out and on one occasion came back into the open when this photo was taken."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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"octopus was on the shore near the entrance to the marina. It was found with two mangled arms. One arm was amputated nearly to the head. I requested assistance from a local who picked it up by head to place it back in the water. The octopus made what best can be described as a ""growl"" noise, arched up its arms, and ejected a rust colored ink (I have a video of the interaction). This caused my assistant to release the octopus prematurely- short of being submerged. A piece of drift wood was used to lift and nudge the octopus to a depth at which it could be fully submerged and safe from the audience of gulls that had gathered during the 6 minutes that this transaction took place. I am not aware whether these are injuries incompatible with life for an octopus. I walked away from it alive."
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You can see both his spots pretty well here.
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