The odd recognition of the octopus wins the aquatic photography prize

This foreign and more close image gives an outstanding view of a Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus Briareo) Mother and his potential children in the blue dive dive dive, on the West Palm’s coast of West Florida.

After marriage, these animals alone hide themselves far enough to keep the business of keeping their growing eggs. But for the Octopus Briareo And many other ectopus species, the story has a bad end.

After a mother octopus puts a set of several hundred eggs, he stopped eating; He will die shortly after eggs. In 2022, survey provides light to process. The lifespan and revision of the invertebrates are controlled by the optic glands, the main Neanardoendcrine center at Octopus, which is almost equivalent to the pituitary gland in vertebrates.

Optic gland of octopus mothers undergo a large increase in cholesterol production after marriage, which can cause self-destructive spiral. But the reason for this cycle is not clear. A theory is that the octopus stops eating one’s own child.

Intopus mother The Freelance Chancle Photographer Kat Zhou won the aquatic life category in 2025 Fire competition in the world in the worldOpen to all litographs, professionals and amateur. The competition seeks to celebrate and describe the difference in life in the world and speedy moves to protect and preserve it.

Total Grand Prize to go photographer and conservationist Zou Donglin’s Lemur’s tight lifeA terrible image taken by Tsingy de Bemarara tightly reserves in nature, Madagascar (shown below). After a day of hard drifting in a ragged and fraudulent land, Donglin got a common brown lemur (Eulemur Yellow) In a fatal leap from a cliff to another – with his child aboard.

The next image, mud by Georgina Steytler (shown below), a strange reminder of DIFFERENT IN LIFE LIFEAs a happy beautiful amphibian to jump out of mud. A finalist in the Aquatic life section, spent on the Steytler on Good Beach, in Broome Australia, before removing the exact momentskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirirostris) sailed air.

The final image (shown below) as it was shot at a distant planet. In fact, Embers of snow Through the photographer’s photographer – a finalist of the award landscapes, Flora categories – shot near the Woods house in Connecticut, in the northeastern US.

It shows a Skunk Cabbage (Symplawatpus Foetidus), which is generally one of the earliest plants to go out while winter endings because of the ability to make a microclimate self, which warms about 23 degrees Celsius even when the surrounding air below distress.

It goes down into thermogenesis, or the ability to metabolically generate heat. It not only protects the tissues of the plant from cold damage, but it also serves to attract beetles and fly pollinors to find a warm carrion food.

The less interesting is the source of its name: It shakes a stinking skunk-like when its leaves are broken.

Winner entries will be placed on the California Academy of Sciences of San Francisco in San Francisco later this year.