She read fairly smoothly and seemed to understand the story and vocabulary. My 9 ½-year-old granddaughter (entering 4th grade) read the story to me.

There are some good coping skills in the story that children will relate to. This is a great book for six- to eleven-year-old children. Read about it in The Hunt for Red Octopus.īonus: a treasure chest of games and jokes. With a storm raging, can Hubert bring her home safely? Finding a tiny octopus in the ocean is trickier than detecting one grain of sand on the beach. When Hubert and friends play hide-and-seek in the spooky Kelp Forest, Red Octopus gets lost. He wants to be a superspy, but the sea harbors monsters, ghosts, and worse.

Meet Rainbow Reef's fabulous fish kids: Aiden, the panicky pufferfish, Sparky the doggone friendly dogfish, Olga the eight-legged bully, her little sister Red, and Hubert, a tiny hermit crab with Skyfall ambitions. When Hubert and friends play hide- Suffering sea monsters! Can Hubert brave the storm? 'Personalities of Octopuses ( Octopus rubescens).' Journal of Comparative Psychology 107(3): 336–340.Suffering sea monsters! Can Hubert brave the storm? Meet Rainbow Reef's fabulous fish kids: Aiden, the panicky pufferfish, Sparky the doggone friendly dogfish, Olga the eight-legged bully, her little sister Red, and Hubert, a tiny hermit crab with Skyfall ambitions. Prey selection in Octopus rubescens: Possible roles of energy budgeting and prey nutritional composition. 'Drilling localization on bivalve prey by Octopus rubescens Berry, 1953 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae)' (PDF). Colour changes of Octopus rubescens during attacks on unconditioned and conditioned stimuli. California Fish and Game Technical Report 81(2): 77–79. Feeding on euphausiids by Octopus rubescens. ^ Laidig, T.E., Adams, P.B., Baxter, C.H.'Determination of the diet of Octopus rubescens though examination of its beer bottle dens in Puget Sound.' Malacologia 41(2): 455–460. 'On West Coast Octopuses including a field key to west coast species.' The Festivus 38(1): 5–6. University of Washington, Seattle, WA: 44. Natural history and social behavior of Octopus rubescens (Berry). Preliminary diagnoses of six west American species of Octopus. Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Blake (Eds.) Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel: Vol. Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC). Proceedings of the workshop on the fishery and market potential of octopus in California. Walla Walla University, College Place, WA: 91 'Aerobic metabolism and dietary ecology of Octopus rubescens' (PDF). Super Suckers: The giant Pacific octopus and other cephalopods of the Pacific coast. ^ Cosgrove, James McDaniel, Neil (2009).rubescens a specialist predator by some measures, rather than a generalist, due to it specific nutrient requirements. If this is true, the authors further argue, this would make O. rubescens may choose prey based on fat digestibility rather than on the amount of calories the octopuses is able to obtain from the food items. The octopuses will often concentrate their drill holes near the adductor muscles of the bivalve prey. Following the capture of bivalve prey, it will often drill a hole through the shell to deliver venom and more easily open the shell. rubescens will pounce on prey and display a stereotypical sequence of color changes at the moment of capture. rubescens have also been observed in the wild to consume krill. The two studies on the subject determined diets in Puget Sound, Washington to be dominated by gastropods, particularly Nucella lamellosa and Olivella baetica, but also composed of clams, scallops and crabs. So far, very little quantification of its diet in the wild has been made. rubescens is a generalist predator and has been maintained on a wide variety of gastropods, bivalves, crabs and barnacles in the lab. The two can be differentiated by the presence of three eyelash-like papillae below the eyes of O. It can be easily confused with small individuals of Enteroctopus dofleini in the northern end of this species' range. Color can vary from a deep brick red, to brown, to white, or mottled mixtures of the three. rubescens can change its color and texture, making its appearance highly variable. Adult weight is generally 100–150 grams (3.5 - 5.3 Oz), but animals up to 400 grams (14.1 Oz) in weight have occasionally been observed. rubescens generally grows to a mantle length of 8–10 cm (3.1 - 3.9 in), and arm length of 30–40 cm (11.8 - 15.7 in).

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