Thirty-two takes were required before the Beatles were satisfied with the track. (Take 2 of the recording, featuring this guide vocal, Starr singing the first verse three times, is track 14 on disc 2 of Anthology 3.) In the absence of George Martin, the Beatles themselves were listed as producer, with Martin's apprentice Chris Thomas present in the control room to assist. Starr also provided a temporary guide vocal on this date. The basic instrumental track was recorded 26 April 1969, with the Beatles lineup of two electric guitars (Harrison and Lennon), bass guitar (McCartney) and drums (Starr). It has also been performed by the Muppets several times in various episodes of their shows. The song, which contains the lyrics "Oh what joy for every girl and boy/Knowing they're happy and they're safe," is sometimes thought of as being a song for children, like " Yellow Submarine" or " All Together Now". Uncredited assistance in developing the song's chord changes was provided by Harrison, who can be seen helping Starr work the song out on piano, with Lennon later joining in with drums, in the documentaries Let It Be (1970) and The Beatles: Get Back (2021), both using the same footage. Starr's songwriting was further inspired by his desire to escape mounting hostility among the Beatles he would later admit that he had "just wanted to be under the sea, too". Tasted like chicken.") The boat's captain then told Starr about how octopuses travel along the sea bed picking up stones and shiny objects with which to build gardens. He ordered fish and chips for lunch, but instead of fish he got squid (it was the first time he'd eaten squid, and he said, "It was OK. The idea for the song came about when Starr was on a boat belonging to comedian Peter Sellers in Sardinia in 1968. I suppose Ringo is writing cosmic songs these days without even realising it." It was the last song released by the Beatles featuring Starr on lead vocals. It's only the second song Ringo wrote, and it's lovely." He added that the song gets very deep into the listener's consciousness "because it's so peaceful. George Harrison, who assisted Starr with the song, commented: " 'Octopus's Garden' is Ringo's song. “We believe they’re exploiting that thermal energy to improve reproductive success." Octopus's Garden" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written and sung by Ringo Starr (credited to his real name Richard Starkey), from their 1969 album Abbey Road. And these octopuses seem to know that, Barry says. There is also an evolutionary advantage to seeking out warmer water: Shorter brood periods mean that fewer eggs are likely to be gobbled up by predators. “They’re cutting a huge amount of time off of their parental care period.” That is much faster than predicted, says Jeffrey Drazen, a deep-sea ecologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who was not involved in the research. Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAAīased on observations of the developing eggs, Barry and colleagues calculated that the moms brooded for only about 600 days, or about a year and a half. “We’re virtually certain these animals are breeding far more rapidly than you’d expect.” Deep-sea octopuses ( Muusoctopus robustus) brood clutches of eggs, which look like white fingers. That discovery was a tip-off that these animals are not the long-haul moms people thought them to be, Barry says. The female octopuses are preferentially laying their eggs in streams of geothermally heated water, the researchers realized. The team found that relatively warm water - up to 10.5° C - bathed all the egg clutches. With one of the submersible’s robotic arms, the researchers also gently nudged dozens of octopuses aside and measured the water temperature in their nests. The team trained cameras at the octopus eggs, which resemble white fingers, to monitor their rate of development. To verify what would be a record-setting stint of motherhood, Barry and his colleagues repeatedly visited the Octopus Garden from 2019 to 2021 using a remotely operated vehicle. “If you look at its predicted brood period at 1.6° C, it’s over 12 years.” robustus, thriving in the chilly depths of the Octopus Garden, was therefore a serious contender to snatch that title, Barry says. The record for the longest brood period of any animal, just over four years, is held by a different species of octopus living in warmer water ( SN: 7/30/14). “When you get really cold, down near zero, that’s when brood periods get really long.” In octopuses, embryonic development tends to slow down at low temperatures, says marine ecologist Jim Barry of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif. But with water temperatures hovering around a frigid 1.6° Celsius, growth in this garden was predicted to be leisurely.
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