Giant Pacific Octopus
by Deana Glenz
Title
Giant Pacific Octopus
Artist
Deana Glenz
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Photograph - Photographs
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The Giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest surviving octopus species. They average in size from nine to 16 feet and between 22 - 110 lbs.
The Giant Pacific Octopus lives three to five years in the wild, with both males and females dying soon after breeding. Females live long enough to tend fastidiously to their eggs, but they do not eat during this months-long brooding period, and usually die soon afterwards.
Giant Pacific octopuses have huge, bulbous heads and are often reddish-brown in color. They use special pigment cells in their skin to change colors and textures, and can blend in with even the most intricately patterned corals, plants, and rocks. Octopus have eight arms, often incorrectly referred to as tentacles (tentacles are longer than arms and usually have suckers only at their tips). An octopus has three hearts, two that pump blood to each of the octopus lungs and the third that pumps blood to the rest of the body.
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February 17th, 2016
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