THE OCTOPUS

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THE OCTOPUS

• BY LISA MARIA KNAPP

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DIAGRAM OF AN OCTOPUS

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

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SCIENTIFIC NAME OF NORTH PACIFIC GIANT OCTOPUS

• Enteroctopus dofleini

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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

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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.

found in the coastal North
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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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