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An Endangered Cephalopod

April 1st, 2008

Can you spot the rare and magnificent endangered species in the photo below?


Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Photo by TGAW

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is not officially on the endangered species list; however, this extremely rare and biologically unique cephalopod inhabits a very small area in the coniferous Olympic rainforests west of Seattle, an area threatened by suburban sprawl and an encroaching logging industry.


Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Zoom

You can see other sightings here, and there’s a pretty amazing video of the PNTO in action here. To read more about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus’ unique behaviors and lifestyle go here.

10 comments to “An Endangered Cephalopod”

  1. Wow, if you click through to Vicky’s picture and zoom in to full size, you can really appreciate the detail on this baby!

         by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  2. Jacques Cousteau is rolling over in his grave right now.

    -BMF

         by BMF April 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pm

  3. You using that photo is like the aliens using our own satellites against us in Independence Day.

    I took the effing picture and I still thought, “What? Really?” and clicked on the links.

    There’s freaking crustaceans living in the canopies of giant sequoias, you know. Crustaceans. So why can’t there be cephalopods? Is it really *that* far-fetched?

    BAH!

    And bah to you as well, ClintJCL.

         by TGAW April 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  4. bwahahahaha

         by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  5. Did you zoom in, Vicky?

         by ClintJCL April 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  6. Magnified 4,108 times. One of my favorite endangered species ever!

    Kristina

         by flyingsirkus April 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am

  7. guys, look up “pacific northwest tree octopus” on wikipedia.org…it’s all a hoax, sorry to break it to ya, there’s no such thing.

         by not so gullible May 1st, 2008 at 12:34 am

  8. Wikipedia??? You trust that biased bunch of nonsense??? It’s written by ANONYMOUS USERS!!! You’re going to believe the word of somebody who won’t even put their real name on what they’ve written against actual photos???

    Did you know that Wikipedia doesn’t even have an entry for the word “gullible???” How can you trust a source like that over moi?

         by ideonexus May 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pm

  9. My wikipedia edits are under my account name which has a profile that links to my blog and personal photos, making me very non-anonymous :) [/devil's advocate] hehe

         by ClintJCL May 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 am

  10. Damn it Ryan, WHY WOULD YOU LIE TO US?!
    WHY!!!?

         by Nick Hamden May 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 am

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