When octopuses reproduce, males use a specialized arm called a hectocotylus to insert spermatophores (packets of sperm) into the female's mantle cavity. The hectocotylus in benthic octopuses is usually the third right arm. Males die within a few months after mating. In some species, the female octopus can keep the sperm alive inside her for weeks until her eggs are mature. After they have been fertilized, the female lays about 200,000 eggs (this figure dramatically varies between families, genera, species and also individuals). The female hangs these eggs in strings from the ceiling of her lair, or individually attaches them to the substratum depending on the species. The female cares for the eggs, guarding them against predators, and gently blowing currents of water over them so that they get enough oxygen. The female does not eat during the roughly one-month period spent taking care of the unhatched eggs. At around the time the eggs hatch, the mother dies and the young larval octopuses spend a period of time drifting in clouds of plankton, where they feed on copepods, larval crabs and larval starfish until they are ready to sink down to the bottom of the ocean, where the cycle repeats itself. In some deeper dwelling species, the young do not go through this period. This is a dangerous time for the larval octopuses; as they become part of the plankton cloud they are vulnerable to many plankton eaters.
Octopi are known to have over 9000 babies a week. Seriously.
other octopuses kill octopuses!!!! :-D
They are generally solitary, and if they reproduce, they don't have much contact with their babies.
no!!They do not even have octopuses in sea world!!: )
what does an octopuses ink do to its predator
octopuses need poo and pee
the octopuses real name is octopus.
octopuses do not attack its just the matter of how you handle them
Octopuses have copper and magnesium in their blood.
No, octopuses are invertabrates. They are in Kingdom Anamalia and Phylum Molusk.
No. Octopuses live in salt water, not fresh.
Generally wolf fish, dogfish, and moray eels feast on octopuses. Occasionally small sharks will prey on octopuses too.
Tree octopuses do not exist. All octopuses are marine (live in the ocean).