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Octopus population grows while number of fishes decreases

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<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/05/octopus-population-grows-while-number-of-fishes-decreases/octopus/"><img alt="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/octopus-579x264.jpg" title="octopus"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Shutterstock Image by Olga Visavi</span> </div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>The octopus population is growing while number of fishes is decreasing<br/></strong></li><br/><li><strong>Octopuses are sea animals famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes, and eight long arm</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Scientists say overfishing may have contributed to this</strong></li><br/></ul><p>Amid the decreasing number of fishes, the population of octopuses is growing around the world, scientists have disclosed.</p><br/><p>Octopuses are sea animals famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes, and eight long arms, the <a href="http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/octopus/#octopus.jpg">National Geographic Kids</a> disclosed. They live in all the world’s oceans but are especially abundant in warm, tropical waters.</p><br/><p>In an article written by Scott Campbell of <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-increase-octopus-numbers-across-8033544">Mirror</a>, it was disclosed that experts around the world have catalogued a significant increase in numbers of cephalopods over the past six decades. Cephalopods include octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes.</p><br/><p>“Our analyses showed that cephalopod abundance has increased since the 1950s, a result that was remarkably consistent across three distinct groups,” said Dr. Zoe Doubleday from Australia’s Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>According to him, cephalopods are notoriously variable, and population abundance can fluctuate wildly; both within and among species.</p><br/><p>With the huge increase in octopus numbers in the world’s oceans, the scientists herald the “time of the tentacled.”</p><br/><p>“The fact that we observed consistent, long-term increases in three diverse groups of cephalopods, which inhabit everything from rock pools to open oceans, is remarkable,” Doubleday said.</p><br/><p>It was disclosed that the “brainy” invertebrates have evolved some extraordinary adaptive traits, including suckered tentacles, camera-like eyes, colour-changing skin and complex learning behavior.</p><br/><p>Moreover, one group of scientists who mapped the octopus genetic code stated that the animal was so strange that it could be viewed as an “alien” from another world.</p><br/><p>According to Doubleday, cephalopods may be able to cope with changing environmental conditions such as rising temperature; better than many other marine species.</p><br/><p>Furthermore, researchers believe that overfishing may have also contributed to the event.</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/05/octopus-population-grows-while-number-of-fishes-decreases/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

Shutterstock Image by Olga Visavi The octopus population is growing while number of fishes is decreasing Octopuses are sea animals famous...