Day octopus (octopus cyanea)

The day octopus is also called as reef octopus, cyane’s octopus the big blue octopus. As the name indicates it hunts during the day. It has the ability to change the overall color and texture of the skin. Since it has the ability to change the color it can easily blend and so it looks like a natural rock.

The day octopus is little larger than the normal one and has the body length of about 16 cm and legs of about 80 cm. This huge size does not prevent them for becoming invisible to the predators.

In normal condition the octopus appears in brown color with dark oval patches. These oval patches resembles like the eye of the octopus.
These day octopus feeds on fishes, crabs, bivalves, and shrimps. This octopus can be easily identified by the empty shell and remains of the prey that has been littered in the ocean floor.

The day octopuses are found in the indo pacific region where there are coral reefs. The day octopuses are not poisonous.

Battle at Kruger

Here is a battle between the lions and buffalos at Kruger.

The baby buffalo is being attacked by a pride of lions. As the lions take the prey in to the near by lake a crocodile emerges and try to catch the prey from the lions pride before the whole herd of buffalo comes in the scene. The whole herd of the buffaloes fights with the lion pride saving the baby buffalo. How mystery is the animal kingdom?

What an amazing scene to watch!

A blind amphibian – Olm

Olm is a blind amphibian that lives in the water that flow underground though the limestone region. This species is especially found in the caves of dinaric krst of southern Europe. This is the only species that belongs to the genus Proteus. This species is also called as “Human fish” because of its skin color. This species is blind and can live for 100 years and this species can live without food for a period of 10 years.

This blind vertebrate hunts its prey in complete darkness. Though it is blindness it has a well developed sensory and hearing system. This skin covered eye of this pale organism is still sensitive to lights.

Today this species is threatened with more pollution and its habitat disturbance.