Have you ever wanted to slap eight people at once? Or if you're more of a mushy, touchy, feely person, have you ever wanted to hug eight people at once? An octopus can do either or both of these if they want to! So you know an octopus is lucky being able to do this but what's an octopuses habitat? Since they can slap eight things at once do they have predators? Or since we're on the facty facts subject where do they live?
First of all, an octopus is a cellapod. Which means it has a soft body, and no bones. An octopus also has eight arms, large useful eyes, and suction cups. ( Octopuses and Squid, page 6 by: Tori Miller.) All of these traits are mostly used for hunting. Eight arms come in handy when your prey is fast and can get away easily, large eyes are useful when you need to see in the dark or the depths of the ocean, and suction cups are used when they need to grab hold of something.( Octopuses Squid, page 14.) ( National Geographic, Octopus Facts.) Octopuses have blue blood caused by copper and bag like bodies. When born they're 1/4 of an inch and don't rely on...
What is scaly, creepy, 50 feet long, and swims in the world's most notorious lake? If you said The Loch Ness Monster, then you’re correct! The Loch Ness Monster, mostly known as the creature Nessie, is a huge, “mythical” creature that has been scaring the people of Ireland for centuries, but this monster is actually real.
Seaworld is a giant marine life theme park. The greatest attraction to these many theme park would be those killer whales. In fact, these killer whales are the face of the park. As gigant as these mammals are, seaworld is keeping them in some pretty tight quarters. Mr. Jett and Mr.Ventre says “Wild killer whales can swim a hundred miles daily as they socialize, forage, communicate, and breed. In stark contrast, with little horizontal or vertical space in their enclosures, captive orcas swim only limited distances, with most spending many hours surface resting.” The animals don't have the freedom they need. Also when taking the whales out of their natural habit the whales tend to be depressed and not as heath in that situation. They need their freedom in the big ocean blue. Bring them into the small living units, breeding whales in captivity all for the entertainment of humans. At young ages the calves are taken away from their mothers on to a new seaworld park. Mothers of the calves have even been seen denying their offspring.
Cephalopods are known to be exceptionally intelligent by invertebrate standards and in some respects even rival “higher” vertebrates. These animals have many highly evolved sensory and processing organs that allow them to gain a greater understanding of their environment and their place within it. Due to their advanced structures, many of which are analogous to vertebrate structures, and abilities they have been widely studied. Their methods of learning have been of prime interest and many experiments have been conducted to determine the different ways in which octopuses can learn. From these experiments four main kinds of learning have been identified in octopuses: associative learning, special learning,
Squidward Tentacles is an employee at the Krusty Krab. He is a 34 year old male. He resides in Bikini Bottom. His hobbies include playing his clarinet and painting multiple pictures which he has false hope will one day be published in some museum. He has hatred for going to work, and is horrible with customer service. He exhibits a strong desire to fit in with a higher caste than himself. There have been many episodes though where when given the chance to prove himself worthy of a higher caste he will retreat to a safer place like his house. His esteem level seems very low. He never leaves his house other than for work either. He hates being social and that’s very obvious in every action Squidward carries out. He rarely dates and when he does there is never a second date. He is a healthy man of his age. He really doesn’t have many friends. There is his two neighbors Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star, they want to be friends with him but Squidward can barely tolerate either of them. When he is sad he usually turns to his music, painting, or bubble baths which he takes very often. His life goal or aspiration is to be a famous artist and musician. He’s a very smart individual but has absolutely horrible social skills.
The outer tentacles probe for a potential meal, then the inner sensors decide if the prey is edible. They are covered in thick, blackish-brown, water-repellent fur, and have large scaled feet and a long, thick tail. This animal is by far one of the most interesting animals in the world, despite looking like a cross between a rat and an octopus. The way it behaves and utilizes its star nose is fascinating and makes it very unique when compared to other animals.
“Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal.”. Because of the moistness of the rainforest and their specialized skin, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for long periods of time, but if they get the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water. The tree octopus explores the world by both touch and sight. Tree octopuses have eyesight comparable to human. Besides the fact that it allows them to see their prey and environment around them, it helps in inter-octopus relations. Even though they are not social like us, they show each other their emotions through their ability to change the color of their skin: red indicates anger, white fear, while they normally maintain a mottled brown tone to blend in with the background. (Lyle
Dumbo the elephant who flies by flapping his ears is probably one of everyone’s childhood memories. Well, the world is so large that it is not surprising that multiple creatures move by flapping their ears just like Dumbo. However, where this creature differs is they live in the depths of the ocean. They are classified into a family of Cephalopods, the octopus family. This creature is known as the deepest living of all octopus, Grimpoteuthis, also known as the Dumbo Octopus. Dumbo octopus is a type of octopus named after Walt Disney's famous character Dumbo the elephant because of the ear-like fins. Dumbo octopus live on the seafloor or slightly hover above it at a depth of 3000 to 4000m (9800 to 13000ft). They can be found in New Zealand,
Shrimp can be very intelligent animals and have very amazing things such as being clear, this may seem weird but yes, they are clear. Shrimp live in the ocean and come in contact with many different plants animals. The most common plant that the shrimp comes in contact the most with and use for protection is seaweed, coral, and algae. Shrimp use the for protection to hide from the other animals they depend on shrimp for their diet, most of these animals are sharks, whales and sometimes crabs are included. The change of having no eyes helps the shrimp hide from these and keeps the population at a good rate and this has also helped overfishing with not having contact with other animals and causing lots of movement to the other animals and fisherman.
Crustaceans belong to the Arthropoda Phylum, which includes critters like ants, spiders, and centipedes. I know! Crazy to think that a delicious crab is in the same group as a spider! But they share similar characteristics. For starters, members of the Arthropoda Phylum do not have a backbone like you and me, so they are called __invertebrates__. And, as mentioned earlier, their skeleton is external, which is referred to as an __exoskeleton__.
Occasionally, a giant squid will wash up on shore or will come up in a fishing net, which has allowed scientists to get a close observation of these squid and their anatomy.
One, the above fantastical Mantis Shrimp is a stomatopod, which is a distant relative to crabs, shrimp, and lobsters. Stomatopods began evolving independently from other crustaceans nearly 400 million years ago, about 170 million years before the first dinosaurs appeared on Earth. Mantis shrimp are approximately four inches long and their eyes can see six images at once. They use clubs that are more like elbows than fists to punch their prey (with the force of a bullet shot from a 22-caliber gun). Because the Mantis Shrimp is so fast, its punch results in something scientists call a cavitation bubble, a
Clownfishes are territorial. They defend their host and a limited area around it. In the wild, the clownfishes can be found associating with 10 different species of sea anemones. When threatened by a predator, clownfishes dive among the tentacles of their host, often temporarily vanishing from sight among the anemone's appendages. When the threat is gone, the fish will reemerge. The host specificity exhibited be clownfishess varies from one species to the next. for example, the maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) is almost always found associating with the bubble tip sea anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor) (Michael, 2008).
They live at the bottom of shallow waters and in warmer areas. The clownfish don’t live alone, though. They live in and alongside sea anemone, a marine animal that looks less like an animal and more like an aquatic plant. The colorful tentacles that make up the sea anemone attract different types of marine life that it then shocks and immobilize before consuming the paralyzed creatures.
Soft corals are grouped in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, and order Alcyonacea. Their distinguishing characteristic is that their polyps always bear eight tentacles which are on both edges fringed by rows of pinnules (Fabricius and De’ath, 2002). The common name “soft coral” comes from the fact that they have no massive external skeleton as compared to the more commonly studied hard corals.
1. The octopus were initially housed in plastic containers, which were placed in larger aquaria. They were housed in this way to prevent cannibalism, which is one of the many aggressive behaviors of octopuses. This system allowed visual and chemical communication between individual organisms. Housing was changed to allow pairs to live together because it was observed during mating that no cannibalism or other signs of aggression were present. Only sucker marks were seen after mating.