The Outstanding Octopus!
By Omar Daraghmeh
The Introduction
Squirt! The octopus squirts ink to escape predators. Octopuses are amazing creatures with a fascinating habitat, appearance and diet. Octopi are the most smartest invertebrate.
Octopus Homes
Octopi have unique homes. They can be found in every ocean in the world! Octopuses can live in dens, spaces under rocks, crevices on the ocean floor, or they dig under large rocks. This can protect them from being food for predators. Octopi can block their den with rocks for protection. They make up ⅓ of all invertebrates on earth!
The Apperence Of The Octopus
Food For The Octopus
The octopus can eat a lot of food. It eats crabs and scallops, plus some fish, turtles, crustaceans, and other octopi. Octopi can obtain food with their arms Then they bite it with their rough beaks, which paralyze the prey with a nerve poison and it also softens its flesh to make it easier to eat. They use their special ink to confuse the prey to make it easier to catch. While some ocean animals hunt at day, octopuses hunt at night. Only the blue ringed octopus of Australia Has a poison strong enough to kill a person. Amazingly, instead of eating or swallowing their prey octopi suck out the flesh from the prey.
The Closing
From their under water den to their huge bulbous head, and to the crabs in their belly, octopuses are interesting under water animals. They can travel through the ocean 60 feet in about a minute. These are important animals to the ecosystem.