Octopus
Interesting
fact about octopuses is that they actually have venom from the bacteria that
builds up inside them, only most of them don’t have enough to hurt humans.
Except the blue ringed octopus its most definitely very dangerous to humans and can
paralyse an adult in minutes. It’s pretty disturbing but when some octopuses
are stressed they start to eat their own tentacles. Tentacles are very
sensitive and if there is something sharp or anything like that, that they are
trying to cling onto the suckers/cup will individually move away from it. They have
two rows of suckers on each tentacle. There are 1,600 cups in their arms and
they can also smell with their arms.
They can
easily change the colour of themselves in seconds but not to certain patterns just
to fit the surroundings like rocks or plants, they can also change their body
shape the only thing in their body that is solid is their skull. Octopuses
barley live a fully long life, some of them only live for maybe a few years then
there are some that live for six months if even.
Today there
are about 289 species of octopus.
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