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    Marcos Garcia
    Marine Biology
    Giant Pacific Octopus
    12/14/2016

    Scientific Name:
    Enteroctopus dofleini, also known as
    the giant Pacific octopus or North
    Pacific giant octopus, is a large
    marine cephalopod belonging to the genus Enteroctopus.
    Diet:
    clams, cockles, crabs, abalone, scallops, fish, fish eggs, octopuses
    Predators:
    Cormorants, Sperm Whales, Seals, Sea Lion, and Octopus
    Size:
    often 50 pounds and 15 feet across; sometimes larger
    Habitat:
    Reefs & Pilings
    Range:
    Japan to Alaska to Baja California
    Average Life Span:
    2 to 5 years

    They're usually reddish-pink with a


    delicate, veinlike pattern when you see
    them
    up close, fading to white on the underside
    of the
    tentacles. Its eight arms are covered with
    suction cups2,240 of them in females, about 100 fewer in maleswhich give the octopus
    an iron grip as well as exquisite powers of taste and smell.
    Giant Pacific octopus spend most of their lives alone. They live in chilly (60 degrees
    Fahrenheit or colder) Pacific waters from Korea and Japan north to Alaska and south to

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    Southern California. They live in fairly shallow, coastal waters down to depths of 330 feet
    or more. If you're lucky and extremely s harp-eyed you may find one in a tide pool.
    Octopuses are very intelligent animals that can learn to open jars, play with toys, and
    interact with their handlers. Scientists long thought that animals were unlikely to evolve
    intelligence unless they were social (lik, so the octopus's clever, lonely life is something of
    a mystery.

    Body Parts:

    Masters of Camouflage:

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    Like other octopuses, the giant Pacific octopus is a


    master of disguise due to a complex system of pigment
    cells, muscle fibers and nerves. Millions of elastic cells
    under the skin contain colored pigments. By stretching
    these open or squeezing them shut from moment to
    moment, the octopus adjusts its skin color. It can flash a
    warning signal or melt into the background, using its
    sharp eyes to match the patterns and colors of its
    background nearly perfectly. Experiments have shown
    that octopuses are color-blind, making these feats that much more mystifying.

    The early days: life as a tiny octopus


    The largest octopus in the world hatches from an egg the size of a rice grain. The tiny
    hatchlings are just over a
    quarter-inch long and weigh 22
    milligrams (less than a
    thousandth of an ounce). On
    one, their eight little arms
    already have about 14 tiny
    suckers each.

    day

    Octopuses typically live alone,


    saving up energy for their one
    chance at mating near the end
    of their roughly three-year
    lives. Then a female choo ses a
    male typically one much larger than herself
    and together they head for a den in deeper water
    (40 to 170 feet deep). A month or more after
    mating, the female lays 18,000 to 74,000 eggs
    (occasionally more), hanging them from the roof
    of a deep-water den in hundreds of strands of
    around 250 eggs each.The mother octopus lives
    in
    the cave for up to seven months as the curtain of
    eggs develops, fanning the eggs with her arms or
    contracting her body to shoot streams of oxygen- and nutrient-rich water over them. She
    doesn't eat during this time and usually diesshortly after the young hatch.

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