Chapter 23: After the Aleuts After the Aleuts leave in their ship, taking Tutok with them, Karana finds many wounded otter. This makes her sad, and she spends a few days putting the ones that are too badly wounded to live out of their misery. But then she finds a young otter that has a long gash on its back.
Q. What does Karana discover swimming with Mon-a-nee?
This is Mon-a-nee, for sure. She holds up a fish, and faster than she can even see, Mon-a-nee has snatched it away from her. It’s two months (two moons, according to Karana) before Karana sees Mon-a-nee again. When she does, she’s back out looking for abalone and sees Mon-a-nee swimming with two baby otters behind him.
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Q. Who is Mon-A-Nee in Island of the Blue Dolphins?
Karana names the otter Mon-a-nee, which means “Little Boy with Large Eyes.” Mon-a-nee is difficult to keep fed, however, and after three days that Karana cannot feed him because the sea is too rough to fish, she returns to the tide pool to find that he has gone back to the ocean.
Q. What happens in chapter 25 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?
By Scott O’Dell The Aleuts never return to the island and the otters start to migrate to Tall Rock during the summer. Eventually, even the otters stop their migration, which is when Karana knows that there are no otters left that remember the Aleuts. This is also the summer when Rontu dies.
Q. What is a female octopus called?
hen
Q. Do octopus die when they have babies?
An octopus that produces too few eggs will lose reproductive fitness. She will survive for a time after her eggs hatch but will soon die in any case and she has fewer progeny than she could have had.
Q. How do you tell if an octopus is male or female?
To identify their sex, male A. aculeatus keep a black- and white-stripe pattern on their bodies while in the presence of a female and during aggressive encounters, and females remain camouflaged.
