I knew that hermit crabs may "deliberately grab anemones and fix them to their shells, making a stinging line of defence". I did NOT know they sometimes "bring their favourite anemones along with them when they move to a new house" 😮🐚
Greatly enjoying Helen Scales's book Spirals in Time
#nature #seashells #molluscs #books #NatureWriting #sea #HelenScales #MarineBiology
Scales's book has a nice account of the pioneering marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux, who invented the aquarium and did groundbreaking research on argonauts (the octopuses, not the sailors)
Short biography here:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jeanne-Villepreux-Power
#JeanneVillepreux #cephalopods #MarineBiology #science #reading
Jeanne Villepreux-Power French-born naturalist best known as the inventor of the aquarium and for her research on the paper nautilus Argonauta argo, a cephalopod that resembles members of the genus Octopus in most respects. Villepreux-Power was the daughter of a shoemaker. She moved to Paris at age
Marine biologist Helen Scales describes an encounter with an octopus:
#octopus #molluscs #cephalopods #HelenScales #nature #NatureWriting #sea #MarineBiology
Stan Carey