Toples

Pada pagi kedua, Chiara membawa sebuah toples ke akuarium Pasta. Toples itu memiliki tutup ulir. Di dalamnya ada seekor kepiting hidup.

On the second morning, Chiara brought a jar to Pasta's tank. The jar had a screw lid. Inside was a live crab.

Chiara menjatuhkan toples itu ke dalam air. Toples itu tenggelam perlahan. Pasta tidak langsung menyerang.

Chiara dropped the jar into the water. It sank slowly. Pasta did not lunge.

Polly bertengger di tepi akuarium. Kepiting itu bergerak di dalam toples. Pasta menyentuh toples dengan satu lengannya. Lengannya bisa merasakan apa yang disentuhnya.

Polly perched on the rim. The crab moved inside the jar. Pasta touched the jar with one arm. Her arms can taste what they touch.

Pasta meraih toples dengan dua lengannya. Dia memutarnya perlahan. Lengan ketiga bekerja pada tutupnya.

Pasta gathered the jar with two arms. She turned it slowly. A third arm worked at the lid.

Gurita bisa membuka toples dengan tutup ulir. Mereka sudah melakukannya di laboratorium sejak tahun 1950-an. Mereka merasakan ulirnya dengan pengisap mereka. Lalu mereka memutar tutupnya.

Octopuses can open screw-top jars. They have done it in labs since the 1950s. They feel the threads with their suckers. Then they turn the lid.

Pasta memutar tutupnya. Tutup itu terbuka. Kepiting itu mencoba kabur. Tapi lengan keempat Pasta sudah menunggu. Kepiting itu hilang.

Pasta turned the lid. It popped off. The crab tried to escape. But Pasta's fourth arm was waiting. The crab was gone.

Chiara menulis di papan catatannya. "Tiga menit. Dia semakin cepat."

Chiara wrote on her clipboard. "Three minutes. She is getting fast."

Gurita sangat aneh. Mereka memiliki tiga jantung. Darah mereka berwarna biru. Mereka hanya hidup tiga sampai lima tahun. Pasta sudah berumur dua tahun.

Octopuses are very strange. They have three hearts. Their blood is blue. They live only three to five years. Pasta was already two.

Dia akan mempelajari semua yang bisa dia ketahui dalam waktu yang tersisa.

She would learn everything she would ever know in the time she had left.