THE OCTOPUS

BY: LISA MARIA KNAPP

DIAGRAM OF AN OCTOPUS

• HERE YOU HAVE A FIGURE OF AN OCTOPUS AND SHOWS ITS BODY PARTS

SCIENTIFIC NAME OF NORTH PACIFIC GIANT OCTOPUS

• Enteroctopus dofleini

HOW DOES THE NORTH PACIFIC GIANT OCTOPUS

FEED?• The giant Pacific octopus uses a parrot-like beak to

tear its prey into small pieces • the octopus can inject a powerful neurotoxin that is

stored in the salivary glands to disable or kill its

prey

HABITAT

• found in the coastal North Pacific, usually at a depth of around 65 meters (215 ft). It can, however, live in much shallower or much deeper waters.

REPRODUCTION

• It can lay up to 100,000 eggs which are intensively cared for by the females. Hatchlings are about the size of a grain of rice, and only a very few survive to adulthood.

• During reproduction, the male octopus deposits a spermatophore (or sperm packet) more than 1 meter long. Large spermatophores are characteristic of octopuses in this genus.

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