Octopus Facts

There’s no antidote for a blue-ringed octopus bite. However, if you can get to a ventilator to help you breathe and wait out the 15 hours of paralysis, your muscles will start working again and you’ll survive.

The majority of an octopus’ neurons are located in its arms. Their arms can taste, touch, and manage essential functions independently of the brain.

When mating, the male octopus tears off his arm (the one that’s also a penis), places it in the female, and then swims off to die.

By changing its colour and shape, the mimic octopus can impersonate more than 15 different species. It’s not always obvious; one disguise was described by scientists as looking like ‘a furry turkey with human legs’.

During sex, a female octopus can “hug” a male so hard with her many arms that sucker marks are often visible later on the male.

When an octopus’ arm is severed, the arm will continue to search for food – Then it will try to feed the mouth it doesn’t have.

The super beaver moon of November 2016 exacerbated high tides at Miami Beach, leaving an octopus stranded in a parking garage.

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