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dwhatley;124383 said:OB, does this suggest that females stop eating like a brooding octopus? That would kind of kill the idea that the female octo doesn't eat because food might contaminate the eggs (or has that theory been dropped already?).
Well, first and foremost, the atrophy thesis needs to be supported by more real life datapoints, but if it were to hold up to further scrutiny, it might also indicate a change of diet, not so much a stop eating altogether attitude. If Steve is right (ho-hum!), mature blobby females might not require active predation to meet their protein requirements.