Summary

Octavia has retreated to her den, so Montgomery can only watch her through the glass pane. She is sleeping, hanging from the roof, and cradling the eggs she has laid. Montgomery has arrived before opening hours and watches the octopus with her red-light headlight. Breathing deeply and more rapidly as she wakes up, Octavia moves and the author can see her thousands of eggs, each the size of a grain of rice. They will not hatch because they are probably unfertilized, it is unlikely that Octavia mated at her young age before coming to the aquarium. Many female octopus do not leave their eggs even to eat, and the record has been recorded at four and a half years without feeding. Near the Seattle Aquarium, many divers visited an octopus in the ocean named Olive who became used to...