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Kingdom
Animal
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Class
Invertebrate
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Order
Octopus
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Status
Varies by species.
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Date Updated
Sun Jun 23 15:44:17 2013
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Octopus Facts & Trivia for kids
- Octopuses are extremely flexible, boneless creatures.
- Octopuses hunt and forage primarily at night.
- Male Octopuses are larger than females.
- Octopuses have a well developed sense of site.
- When swimming the rear part of the Octopus leads.
- Octopuses are one of the most intelligent of invertebrates.
- Some Octopuses can be kept as pets.
- The world's largest Octopus is the Giant Pacific Octopus.
- An Octopus has three hearts.
- Octopus can shoot a cloud of black ink into the water when disturbed by another creature.
- Octopus have eight arms.
- Octopuses can squeeze their flexible bodies into tiny caves and crevasses for protection.
- If an Octopus loses a tentacle is grows a new one in its place.
- Octopuses sometimes change color to avoid being caught by preadators.
- Octopuses have beaks. They use their beaks to break crabs and mollusks they eat.
- Recent studies show that all Octopus species are venomous.
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