Do you know any WEIRD amazing fact about octopuses?
I need to write a paragraph abt them: misconceptions, classes, & trivia…
It’s school…
Favorite Answer
2.An octopus will only stay in a “house” for about two days, and then it will set off to hunt for food. It will most likely never return to the home. From there, the octopus will make a new house.
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215242/octopi.htm
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…………MISCONCEPTION……….
Most people think it’s only one octopi
1. There are three plural forms of the word octopus.
They include octopi, optopuses, and octopodes.
……SOURCE/verification ………..
http://animals.about.com/od/mollusks/a/t…
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2.An octopus has three hearts.
Two hearts are used to pump blood to each of the octopus’ lungs and the third pumps blood throughout the body.
3.Octopi are highly intelligent.
They are believed to be the smartest of all invertebrates and show great skill at problem solving (instead of relying on instincts).
…………MISCONCEPTION………..
4.Octopi have arms, not tentacles.
It is a common mistake to refer to an octopus’ arms as ‘tentacles’. Tentacles are longer than arms. Tentacles usually have suckers only at their tips
http://animals.about.com/od/mollusks/a/tenfactsoctopi.htm
……..For incorrect answer of
……they eat with their stomach
We crush our food in our hard bill then rasp off bits with the radula (like a fingernail file) located in our mouths.
http://www.manandmollusc.net/beginners_intro/cephalopoda.html
Also, in laboratory experiments, octopuses have been able to open jars. They have even been known to get out of their aquariums or climb aboard ships to open buckets of crabs!
Octopuses have no “blind spot” in their vision, as we do, because their optic nerves are bundled up behind their photoreceptors, rather than in front of them as ours are.
And yes, the correct plural of octopus is in fact octopuses, rather than octopi. (It does seem like it should be octopi, but it’s not.) At least that is what my textbook says.
Octopuses have a relatively short life span, and some species live for as little as six months. Larger species, such as the North Pacific Giant Octopus, may live for up to five years under suitable circumstances. However, reproduction is a cause of death: males can only live for a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch, for they neglect to eat during the (roughly) one month period spent taking care of their unhatched eggs.
If it loses a leg it grows it back. The blue ringed octopus can kill a full grown man.
Octopus are extremely fast swimmers.
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