Essay On Octopus

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Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus)

· Mimic octopus females differ from the female of other octopus species as they don’t stop foraging and feeding while they’re carrying their eggs.

· Mimic octopuses have a unique strategy to avoid predators. They are able to impersonate different animals (some scientists believe they are able to mimic up to 15 different animal species), such as sea snakes, lionfish, jellyfish and flatfish.

· While they are mimicking other animals they not only change the colour of the body, like other octopuses, but their change the shape of their body too.

Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) belongs to the order Octopoda (octopuses) within the Cephaloda class. Its family, the Octopodidae contains over 200 species, most of them are known, benthic octopus species. Related species are wonderpus octopus, blue-ringed octopus and giant octopus.

Mimic octopuses have a small size, they grow up to 60cm. Their tentacles are about 25 cm long and they have a thickness like a pencil. Their body colouration shows a brown-white stripy - spotty p...

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