Octopodes are amazing human-like creatures, they are very intelligent and inquisitive and also famous for having 8 arms also known as tentacles. They are very soft and have no bones which makes it easy for them to squeeze through tight spaces, when they are captured by humans they can free themselves by squeezing through gaps. Here's a fun fact, the smallest gap an octopus can fit through is the size of a coin!
What do octopuses eat?
Octopi eat small crustaceans such as clams, small fish, shrimps, lobsters and sometimes they even eat other octopi.
After the female octopus gives birth sometimes the mother and father octopi die to protect their baby and prevent them from eating the baby octopi, Octopus is serious cannibals they tend to eat their babies and sometimes other octopi.
Octopus have prey but also preditors, the preditors of an octopus are moray eels, seals and sperm whales they are the top 3 sea creatures octopi want to stay away from.
Where do octopi live?
Most octopi live in coastal marine waters around the united states also in any coastal marine waters around the world depending on the temperature of the water and the coziest place they can build and find dens.
Octopi like their water to be 59 to 61 degrees.`
Even though they like warm water they can also be found in cold waters anywhere around the oceans.
The life cycle of an octopus
The life cycle of an octopus has 4 stages - The egg, larva, jevenile the last part is the adult.
The egg and larva lasts for about 56 months at the most, the mother carrys the eggs for the 53-56 months and then births them.
It takes octopi 1-2 years to grow fully from a juvenile to an adult.
Hello Ella I am a year 7 student at Glenbrae School. This is a wonderful blog post you have made. One thing I learned was that The mother carries her babies for 53-56 mouths then births them. What was your favorite part when you made this blog post. Keep up the great work.
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Hello!thank you for your comment, my favourite part while doing this task was finding the information.
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Hey Ella my name is Victoria and I really enjoyed reading your Octopus Report. I hope that one day you do another one because it is so fun reading them.
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