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Does octopus eat their own arms whenever in a stressful situation?
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∙ 12y ago
Female Octopus does eat their arms, not in a stressful situation, but while taking care of the unhatched eggs. It does so only for sustenance.
The female Octopus does not hunt during the roughly one-month period while she is taking care of the unhatched eggs. This is the time she may ingest some of her own arms. While the eggs hatch the mother is too weak to defend herself from predators like cod, and it often succumbs to the attacks.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoYes.
When a female Octopus is laying its thousands of eggs it hangs from a ceiling and relies on the food it stored inside the body, but sometimes this is not enough so it eats some of its own limbs in order to survive long enough to lay all eggs. Octopi are cannibals and will not hestitate to eat parts of themselves or other Octopi if needed.
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∙ 14y agoYeah. But it can grow them back.
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