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.
•THE END
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