Squid

• The squid is known as the ice cream cone of the sea because they are a favorite food of many ocean dwellers.
• All squids are carnivores.
• the colossal squid, mostly known as the giant squid, eat whales when he can "take them down".
• Squid can live in fresh water, and saltwater.
• Squids can range from 24 inches long to more than forty feet long!

They're more shy than aggressive, although they do attack sometimes. I don't think they are as aggressive as squid.

You can kick the top of the head or you can bang your elbow on both side of the tentacle.

I just read an article in National Geographic News that said that a new study, done April 2009, showed that all octopus, cuttlefish, and some squid are venomous. Here's the link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090417-octopus-venom.html

Octopuses or octopodes. The Anglicized (and most common) plural form of octopus is octopuses. 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.

Well, it pays taxes and can be recruited in times of war as an underwater special forces unit. And many people believe that the octopus is good at physics - but this not true, its hard beak prevents it from fully grasping physics, particularly the laws of thermodynamics.

What kind of a question is this - What does an octopus for the environment? i can only hope that this quesiton is part of a 3rd grade exam, and not a person over 12 asked this question.

What does any animal do for the environment? It exists. It eats shellfish and crabs, it reproduces. It is probbaly one of the smartest living creatures on earth - able to change color and texture, and can even survive outside of water for some time. It tends very carefully to its young, a careful parent - and dies upon their birth.

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Yes. There is a located near the eyes of the octopus. Although it doesn't look like the mammalian brain that we know, it serves many the same functions that our brains do. There are also concentrations of ganglia (concentrations of neurons) in their arms - in fact 2/3 of the octopus's neurons are in their arms - so sometimes these often continue to move even after severed from the octopus body.

Interestingly, cephalopods (octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautiluses) all exhibit high intelligence. Octopuses have been known to break out of aquarium tanks, and some studies indicate that they may even have personalities, which would be very unusual for an invertebrate animal.

They have skin

[its octopuses or octopi]

Squid use a kind of jet power. Water is squirted at great pressure out of a nozzle on the squid's body. At times the squid can swim so fast that it may pop out of the water and glide through the air at 25 to 40 miles per hour. A squid may fly for 100 feet or more before it splashes back into the water.

octopus use there mouth to feel and taste things. also, octopus only squirt ink to let his predator know that he is going to fight.

Yes,because even without shell their skin is wide.
yes

No, to the most part. We do not know that much about squid and octopi simply because they live in the darkest depths of the oceans, and apparently we know more about the planet Mars than our own oceans.

No. Fish have back bones (like us). Squid are molluscs (like octopuses, snails, oysters, etc.)

The common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, has been found in the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas, although populations have been proposed to occur as far south as South Africa. They are found in sublittoral depths (between the low tide line and the edge of the continental shelf, to about 100 fathoms or 200 m).

The state fish (Texas Squid) is known to exist some say number in the hundreds of thousands though one has not been spotted in years. They live near oil rigs which is a natural safe habitat for the animal which produces ink for quick getaways. The Texas Squid is possibly on the endangered species list because no one knows how many there actually are. BP's recent philanthropy included dumping millions of gallons of oil into the gulf to help increase the Texas Squid population. This act was the largest act any company has done for an animal possibly on the endangered species list.

Yes octopus are camoflauge in their own way!!!!!

because they don't need then

The male uses a special arm to place sperm in the female, she then lays fertilized eggs in the top of her den and she aerates and guards (and cleans) them until they hatch. She seals the den with rocks just before they hatch and as soon as they hatch, she dies.

Octopuses, or octopi, are predators. They hunt crabs, prawn, fish, and mollusks. However, in turn they are also hunted by sharks, dolphins, and other sea animals, so they are also prey. This means that they are not top predators, but somewhere in between.