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Octopus
An octopus has no skeleton, but they do have a hard beak. They are known for their long tentacles and ability to squirt ink.
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How strong is a octopuses suction cups?
It depends on the size of it. They can range from 8 inches to 20 feet.
What is the difference between a squid an octopus?
- When hunting, some octopuses inject poison into the prey, causing paralysis.
- Octopuses range in size from 1 cm to more than 5 m in length, while squids range from 1 cm to 20 m.
- Octopuses live in dens on the sea floor. Squids live in the open oceans.
- Both octopuses and squids are related to snails and other molluscs. Unlike snails, octopuses no longer have any remnant of a shell. Squids possess a stiff structure known as a pen, that acts as a flexible backbone.
- Octopuses are solitary animals that live alone in dens.
Some squids live in large schools, others are solitary. Some squids school when young and become solitary later in life.
- Squid have two tentacles and eight arms, and octopuses just have eight arms.
Edit: This list seems to be all wrong (except the very last point, which I need not discuss), thusly highly misleading.
- All squids and octopuses have a venom gland and venomous bite
Read more: Is_the_common_squid_poisonous
- The giant squid (genus: Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species. (wikipedia)
- Deep/open. I'll let you have this one because I can't fact-check it in 2 minutes (remember, I found this question because I'm looking for the answers myself)
- This could be right. I remember watching a highly flexible octopus (on a show about problem solving abilities in animals). Squids seem to be less prone to changing shape.
- I've seen schools of squids. This one could be right too.
What abiotic factors do octopus need to survive?
Octopus are very good uses as for having as a pet. They bring joy to kids and they are very known to be looked at in aquariums. They are also good uses for bugs and eating other animals that you don't like. But other wise if you don't need an Octopus for any of these reason then you don't need one at all.
Do blue-ringed octopuses bite or sting?
Tetrodoxtin is the type of toxin contained in blue-ringed octopus saliva, the same type of poison that puffer fish have. A milligram or less, about a pin-head amount, is all that is needed to kill an adult human.
What family does a octopus belong to?
The Common Market squid's classification (if you want a different one be more specific):
Kingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalapoda
Order: Teuthida
Family: Unfortunately this is the only one I don't know, sorry
Genus: Loligo
Species: Duvaucelii
Octopus belong to which family?
Octopus means a member of the order Octopoda. Since orders are higher than families in the classification scheme, you'd have to be more specific about which particular type of octopus in order for us to choose one of the several families in that order.
Octopuses eat small crabs and scallops,plus some snails, fish, turtles and other octopuses.
adult octopi eat crabs, clams, snails, small fish and even other smaller octopi. they use small parrot like beaks to crush their pray.
What is the plural form of the noun octopus?
The plural form of octopus is octopuses (or occasionally octopodes). Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes.
Most dictionaries will list both octopuses and octopi as correct plurals.
What does an octopuses mouth look like?
An octopus looks like a creature with a lot of tentacles.
It looks like a squid with a rounder head and no arrow on it. It has 8 tentacles and moves straight and up instead of sideways, though it still produces ink.
It has suction cups on it's tentacles to grasp things.
What a octopus beak is called?
The answer to your question "what does the beak of an octopus do" is...
The beak of an octopus helps it to eat. The tentacles help grab the food and then they put the food into it's beak. Don't ever touch the beak of an octopus. i is very sharp and can hurt you. (if it is still on an octopus)
What danger is octopus facing?
Blue Ringed octopus, Day octopus, and Giant octopus. Blue ringed octopuses are small sized, but have deadly toxic that can kill a fully-grown man. Day octopuses are large and can float to attack divers. Giant octopuses are the largest species that can kill a human with a beak bite.
Do octopus live in just salt water?
No there is no recoded species of Octopus that can live in freshwater. There are reports of a species that lives in the Ohio river but all cases have been proven a hoax. well maybe if you were to genetically alter them some how to fresh water organs or by slowly adapting the octopuses one generation at a time to fresh water some how like the saying goes when there is a will theres a way
p.s. the guy who answered this is seriously a jerk, i dont believe in god either but that has nothing to do with the question, so i cleaned up the language of this dumb loser who doesn't know how to answer like a normal KIND person :)
What is the colour of the blood of an octopus?
The color of an octopus depends on its mood. Also the color changes. Only some octopuses have the same color which are very rare like the souther blue-ringed octupus.
How do octopus treat there young?
Octopuses are actually quite caring parents. Both the mother and father die not long after reproduction. The mother will care for the egg sac and will not eat after she mates, eventually starving to death either before or after the eggs hatch, leaving the octopus larvae to swim free.
What does octopus use to get its prey?
By wrapping its tentacle around the prey and possibly squeezing the life out before devouring it.
How many dumbo octopuses are there?
Just one. Every kind of octupus has one tongue, and there's not even a kind of dumbo octupus. Maybe my brother is, but...................ONE tongue, ok?
How do blue ring octopuses catch its food?
They pounce on their prey and then use their venom to parylize their victim and then use their beak to suck the flesh out of the crustations shell
How many different kinds of octopuses are there in the world?
There are 289 different octopus species.
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Information on the Dumbo Octopus?
Not a lot of information on the dumbo octopus is available because it is so elusive. They stand out among octopuses for being pelagic -- that is to say they swim around in the middle of the water instead of crawling about on the sea floor. They also live quite deep in the ocean and this makes them very difficult to find.
Octopi's sense of smell is detected through the suckers on their tentacles.
How many legs has an octopus got?
An octopus has 8 tentacles. But marine scientists now believe that only 2 of those tentacles are actually used for walking and moving around. These are called as legs. The remaining 6 are used for feeding and other functions. Hence they are called as arms.
