For many of us, there was a Walt Disney movie that marked our childhood, and that is Dumbo, the story of a small elephant with giant ears that allowed it to fly. However, in nature there is a very curious and exotic animal, and we are not talking exactly about an elephant, but about an octopus, exactly a Dumbo octopus.
These animals, which belong to the genus Grimpoteuthis octopus, differ from other octopuses, since their pairs of fins are similar to ears. The Dumbo OctopusThey can come to have different sizes, although most of those that have been found in the sea, have reached 20 centimeters in length, it is also known that they can reach up to 2 meters.
These strange creatures that inhabit the Atlantic ocean seasThey live at depths ranging between 3000 and 5000 meters, which has made them difficult to discover and therefore to study. The little that is known about these Dumbos octopuses is that they have a pair of “ears” that help them move in the water. In addition, it is mistrust that they have acquired this shape due to an evolutionary process, that is, at first they were tentacles and little by little they were transformed into a pair of ears.
It is important to note that, although many would like to have these animals in a large aquarium at home, Dumbo octopuses live at great depths, with Specific conditions such as light, since they live in absolute darkness, at an incredible pressure of up to 200 atmospheres, which is why it would be very difficult to keep them alive in our aquarium at home.