Just a month after mating, a female octopus can lay as many as 100,000 eggs. | National Geographic

👀 watch CLOSELY & nickname this octo! ⁣⁣ ⚠️ Octopuses rely on hundreds of thousands of pinpoint-sized pigment cells called chromatophores that can change color to match the environment. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 🎭 This one is demonstrating deimatic color displays as it moves and blends into different environments and attempts to frighten potential predators around him! He’s basically signaling “STAY BACK - I’m just moving on through— nothing to see here!” ⁣⁣ ⁣ 😅 remember: Octopuses are like the floating protein