People
used to tell scary stories about a deep-sea monster that wrapped its many long
arms around a ship and dragged it down to the bottom of the ocean. They called
the monster a “devilfish.”
Today we know that this wasn’t a monster at all. It was an octopus—an
animal with eight arms that lives in the ocean. Octopuses are members of an
animal group called mollusks, which includes squid, clams, and oysters.
There are nearly 50 kinds of octopuses. Some are only a few
inches long. The largest is longer than 30 feet and may weigh more than 150
pounds. But no octopus grows large enough to attack a ship!
An octopus usually lives alone among the rocks on the bottom of
the ocean. Sometimes it moves rocks with its long arms, or tentacles, to make a little
cave for itself. Underneath each tentacle are many little round suckers, or suction cups. These help
the octopus climb over rocks and hold on to things.
Octopuses like to eat shellfish such as crabs, lobsters, and
mussels. An octopus will crawl about on its rubbery tentacles as it looks for
food. But it can also swim very fast. An octopus sometimes hunts fish, chasing
them until they are too tired to swim anymore. Then the octopus tightly wraps
its arms around the fish and eats them.
But the octopus has enemies too. It usually tries to hide from
them. Many octopuses can hide by changing their colors to match the area around
them. If that doesn’t work, the octopus shoots black ink into the water. The
cloudy water confuses the enemy and helps the octopus get away. []
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Photo Source: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/seattle-aquarium-cancels-octopus-blind-date-over-cannibalism-concerns/
14th April 2016
Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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Eight - Armed Wonders (Octopus)
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