HAND-FED OCTOPUS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 2

HAND-FED OCTOPUS.

A TEST GF TAMENESSI INTERESTING ZOO EXHIBITS. It is a prqtty fair test of tameness when a wild creature feeds out of your hand, and the London Zoo is quite justified in now describing its biggest octopus as “tame,” says the “Daily Mail.” When the time comcfj for its crab supper the eight-armed thing comes brazenly to the edge of its tank and pushes out a tentacle so as to be liejped before its three companions. Handed a fair-sized crab, the octopus brings it within reach 'of its horny beak—ignoring casual nips from tlie victim;—chips a piece of shell as delicately as if it were an egg, and then absorbs the soft inside. The four large octopods no.w in the Zoo Aquarium promise to do really well. The reason contains no moral for children, because the authorities base their hopqs on the constant quarrels which take place. - Life is one long wrestling match, for the quartette, and bits of skin Heat in the water after round. Thus the well-matched creatures get plenty of exerc.ise as well as something to give thejin an interest in life. A; they are also feeding well there is every hope that they will establish themselves.

A group of healthy, blood-curdling octopods would bq, so to speak, & bright gem in the crown of Regent’s Park.