Photo 4744134, (c) tangatawhenua, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by tangatawhenua

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Photos / Sounds

What

Typical Octopuses (Family Octopodidae)

Observer

tangatawhenua

Date

September 2, 2016 03:22 PM NZST

Description

This cheeky wheke, not wanting to miss an opportunity to be on Nature Watch like all of the other wheke in the whanau, tapped the foot of @rongoa a few times to get our attention, else we would not have seen it.

Once it had our attention the little poser then changed colour which I have not captured before. It is hard being a wheke model so at the end of the photo shoot, it shut it's eye to sleep (last photo).

I will have to do more research on this phenomenon, for if the wheke are now letting us know they are there, it will make it easier for @pjd1 and whanau to find them LOL

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