CA octopus garden: Why cephalopods are coming here to nest

“If we touch them, they immediately respond. And they're thinking about things and taking care of their young. So I want to think they're pretty smart,” scientist James Barry says of pearl octopuses. Photo courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Some 80 miles off California’s central coast, thousands of pearl octopuses have gathered near an extinct underwater volcano, an ideal place for mating and nesting.

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