Day 4 : NO MORE OCTOPUSES/ NO MAS PULPOS!!🫧🐙

 


On Thursday, we visited the mud flats! 🥿 it was super windy that day! We had to suit up in our warmer clothes and you can see we did not realize that we were supposed to.😣 Overall there was so many shells and different tiny shells, snails , and hermit crabs!🐚 

We explored around and I thought we would not see many organisms or creatures in the mud flats. I was searching everywhere and try to figure out what to find because there wasn’t many rocks to lift in order to find organisms! Until… i heard a scream! Octopuses 🐙 everyone near Dr. C had an octopus! They were many baby octopuses in shells and hiding in little to no rocks 🪨. They were so tiny and the shells they were hiding in fit into them!

Dr. c further explained how this is a breeding ground for them. He showed me the eggs, there was so many he explained octopuses lay up to hundreds thousands of eggs! 🥚 I was looking around even more to see if I can find anything on my own then I saw a pretty shell then asked how to they form in that way. He explained that snails start as babies with all the minerals they have gathered to make their own shell which creates the moon snails! Very interesting findings! 


SPANISH!! 


El jueves visitamos las marismas. ¡Ese día hacía muchísimo viento! Tuvimos que abrigarnos y, como se ve, no nos dimos cuenta de que debíamos hacerlo. ¡Había muchísimas conchas, caracoles y cangrejos ermitaños! Exploramos y pensé que no veríamos muchos organismos ni criaturas en las marismas. Estuve buscando por todas partes, intentando averiguar qué encontrar, porque no había muchas rocas que levantar para encontrar organismos. Hasta que… ¡oí un grito! ¡Pulpos! ¡Todos cerca del Dr. C tenían un pulpo! Eran muchos pulpos bebés con caparazones, escondidos entre casi ninguna roca. ¡Eran tan pequeños que los caparazones en los que se escondían les cabían! El Dr. C explicó que este es su lugar de reproducción. Me mostró los huevos; había tantos que me explicó que los pulpos ponen hasta cientos de miles. 🥚 Busqué aún más por mi cuenta para ver si encontraba algo y vi una concha bonita. Le pregunté cómo se formaban así. Me explicó que los caracoles empiezan siendo bebés y que todos los minerales que han acumulado forman su propia concha, lo que da lugar a los caracoles lunares. ¡Hallazgos muy interesantes!





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