A child’s recent encounter with an octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas has left his mother concerned for other children and the animal.
Britney Taryn and her six-year-old son, Leo, visited the aquarium in early July and had done so several times before, but this visit turned out very different, WIFR reported Sunday.
Taryn recalled that “Leo put his arm in the tank, and the octopus wrapped his tentacles around him and wouldn’t let go. So, I tried to get Leo down and out of there, but the octopus came over the tank with us.”
An image shows the mother standing behind her son, whose arm is over the tank with the octopus still attached to him:
Taryn said she called out
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