Octopus Death - What a Natural Death Looks Like

A video of an octopus giving birth and dying was posted on YouTube. It shows a female being observed in an aquarium as she laid her clutch of thousands of eggs. She stopped eating and tended to her eggs meticulously, fanning her developing offspring with oxygen rich water. But when her brood began to finally hatch, a gripping moment unfolded. As her offspring slipped out of its egg cases, the exhausted mother was swimming among them; soon she was in her death throes. This is what a natural death looks like for an octopus.