Wonderpus - Fontanelle

[bluezombie]

Whew, a better way to bring this thread to a close than the above silliness!

Here is a pic of Fontenelle fixing in formalin, and another of him laid out prior to shipping.

Why are you shipping a dead octopus?

 

[Thales]

From two pages ago

Wonderpus - Fontanelle

An arm tip has already been given to Crissy's associate at the California Academy for DNA work, and his body is fixing in formalin so he can be sent to where he will be the most useful.

 

[pipsquek]

I think it's great stuff you've put up here in the months of Fontanelle's life. Between the photo, video, and observation that you have shared, I'm pretty blown away. While it seems that it will be a unfortunate ineveitability that the world is going to see more and more decline in species, I think this kind of work could possible end up being extremely helpful. If you had simply kept him for the sport of it, I couldn't supported it. But I think that it's pretty clear that you found this to be more important than just a cool pet. THAT is an example worthy of public sharing.

Thanks.

And please send me a larger file of your favorite photo for a reference. While I haven't started, I sure would like to get going on that sculpture. (The "peak" picture.)

 

[Thales]

The occy body arrived at Eric Hotchbergs in good shape.