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Various species of bass make highly visible nests. A friend spent his masters snorkeling Florida lakes, doing population surveys while dodging gators. Last I heard there has been significant progress using drones, marine EVs, and CV to speed up the process. From a research point of view it's amazing because a single aerial photo on a clear day can give you a lot of data.

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Numb...

Octopi are truly amazing. One particular species is the only known invertebrate capable of bipedal walking, and they wear a coconut shell atop their head for camouflage while walking.

In the realm of gigantic non-human habitats, do beavers [1] win the prize for largest total area?

The park is in Alberta, Canada and I love their approximation: “If we thought in terms of hockey rinks, that’s 1600 hockey rinks of water.”

[1] https://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/nature/beaver_gall...

What? Octopuses not octopi? Have I been lied to my whole life?

"Octopi – Often used, but technically incorrect since octopus comes from Greek, not Latin."

Learn something new every day...

„Yes, it's octopodes. I insist on the correct plural. Which is probably why my social life has some issues.“ :D
Octopodes is the historically accurate pluralization of Octopus, but modern English has adopted octopuses.
Indeed..

"Octopodes – This is the correct plural in Ancient Greek, but it's very rare and sounds quite formal or academic."

Wikipedia has a section in this, which I found interesting:

> The standard pluralised form of octopus in English is octopuses; the Ancient Greek plural ὀκτώποδες, octopodes, has also been used historically. The alternative plural octopi is usually considered etymologically incorrect because it wrongly assumes that octopus is a Latin second-declension -us noun or adjective when, in either Greek or Latin, it is a third-declension noun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralis...