Niwa Marine Ecologist Jose Xavier has been studying an Antarctic Octopi and the diets of Antarctic toothfish. He is an Antarctic marine ecologist based at the Marine and Environmental Research Institute of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and at the British Antarctic Survey (UK), focusing his research on predator-prey interactions in the Southern Ocean, particularly on foraging and feeding behavior of top predators to climate change, working with BAS since 1997.
NIWA marine ecologist Mark Fenwick (left) is inspecting a yellow octopus, together with visiting scientists Christian Ibáñez, from Andrés Bello National University, and Maria Pardo, from the University of Chile. Photo: Dave Allen / NIWA
