The animal gets its name from its fins, which resemble the ears of the beloved Disney character.
, an environmental group. Because it has few predators at that depth, the Dumbo octopus does not have an ink sac. Its predators include deep-diving animals such as tunas, sharks, and dolphins.
“Each time, you’re kind of just roaming around with the ROV ,” Galves, who is the video engineer intern for Oceana, told. “Somebody’s like, ‘Wait, what is that in the corner,’ and then everybody starts to gasp, everybody starts to freak out. And everybody’s like, ‘Dumbo octopus!’ So we take the ROV over, we go, and we follow them. They move very slowly and very gracefully, so we get to follow them for quite a while.
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