However warm & fuzzy the current pop culture image of octopi might be - the reality is that they are very short-lived, and even in a (theoretical) completely human-free natural world, 99.9+% of young octopi will be eaten (by natural predators) before they reach adulthood.
Orthogonal to that - the article makes a huge deal of "plunge them alive into freezing water". Octopi are cold-blooded, and cold water is the natural habitat of many species. Does anyone know if cold is actually painful for octopi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Lifecycle
Orthogonal to that - the article makes a huge deal of "plunge them alive into freezing water". Octopi are cold-blooded, and cold water is the natural habitat of many species. Does anyone know if cold is actually painful for octopi?