Crissy Huffard

Octopuses: How They Fight and Shag

About the Speaker

Crissy Huffard is a Marine Biologist who studies how wild animals respond to changing environments. She received her PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and currently works at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Her study subjects range from tropical intertidal octopuses in variable social environments to abyssal sea cucumbers' responding to climate change.

Octopuses- how they fight and shag

Octopuses are often considered to be reclusive cannibals- rarely seeing each other, and eating each other when they do. But how do these animals come together to mate? What are their interactions like? Crissy Huffard will discuss ways octopuses overcome these tendencies to bring a new generation into the world. Learn about animals from the tropical intertidal to the cold deep sea, where these animals are showing us how- despite themselves- they get it done.