Contest could name Vancouver Aquarium’s new octopus ‘Ceph Rogen’
Posted November 8, 2018 9:32 pm.
Last Updated November 9, 2018 1:47 pm.
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*UPDATE: Results are in! Check out who came out victorious here.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – On the heels of voicing up announcements for TransLink, homegrown actor Seth Rogen could soon be a permanent fixture at the Vancouver Aquarium.
It wants you to vote on a name for its new resident octopus.
Angela Rodney with the facility says your choices are either “Ceph Rogen” or “Octavia.”
“Octopuses are cephalopods — that’s the group that octopuses fall under. It means head-foot. So, they’re really, really smart and they’ve got lots and lots of arms, so that’s where the cephalopod name comes from.”
She explains where the suggested name of “Ceph Rogen” came from: “[It] was a suggestion by one of our volunteers because they thought it would be kind of amusing to have cephalopod and playing into the actor Seth Rogen.”
Earlier this year, the aquarium released one of their giant Pacific octopuses back into the ocean because the staff noticed she was ready to mate and when they collected their “new” octopuses they decided to have a naming contest.
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Staff did a bracket-style system to figure out the top two names.
Rogen has tweeted at NEWS 1130 Midday Producer Sonia Aslam and at the aquarium, saying, “Please let this happen.”
The contest is being done on the aquarium’s Facebook page and closes at 11 a.m. on Nov. 9.
