17 Apr 2020

Critter of the Week Yellow Octopus

From Afternoons, 3:32 pm on 17 April 2020

This weeks critter is the yellow octopus. Octopus are intelligent invertebrates with their closest relatives being snails, slugs, chitons and shellfish. This mysterious creature is only found in NZ. They are an important food source for the threatened NZ sea lions on the Auckland Islands, with over 1 million eaten per year says Doc's Nicola Toki
 

E_zealandicus

E_zealandicus Photo: Darren Stevens - NIWA