7 Facts About The Creeply Sea Crawler – The Octopus

The Octopus is the superhero among invertebrates. Not only is it the most intelligent, it can also camouflage instantly, swim fast, squeeze into impossibly small cracks, dull an attacker’s sense of vision and smell, and even re-grow any of its arms with ease.

These 7 awesome facts about this incredible sea-creature will freak you out.

7. An Octopus has three hearts, 9 brains and the color of its blood is blue.

Amazing Sea Creature Octopus

Two of its hearts pump blood to the gills. The third circulates blood to the rest of the body. It’s blood contains a copper-rich protein ‘hemocyanin’. This is more efficient than hemoglobin for carrying oxygen at lower temperatures and oxygen concentrations.

6. With no internal or external skeleton, octopuses are able to squeeze into (and out of) spaces the size of their eye-balls.

Octopuses are able to squeeze into spaces the size of their eye-balls

Believe it or not, a 600 pound octopus can squeeze through a tube the size of a quarter. It’s because the octopus has no bones that it can fit into extremely small spaces. Their body holds no air bladders or gas pockets. This allows them to live at extreme depths of the oceans. In such intense pressure conditions, a normal human would burst almost instantly.

5. A Baby Octopus can be as small as your fingertip!

A Baby Octopus

Female octopuses guard their eggs as long as a year. Once the eggs hatch into baby octopuses, the hatchlings swim towards the surface and join other small animals. They’re so small that they can fit to our finger tip.

4. The blue-ringed octopus carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.

Blue Ringed Octopus

The deadly bite of the Blue-ringed Octopus is often tiny and painless. It contains tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine and dopamine. It causes severe and sometimes total paralysis and death within minutes. The good news is that a human runs the risk of being bitten only if he/she corners and touches the Octopus.

3. Paul the Octopus was so precise in his predictions during the 2010 FIFA World Cup that he received death threats from German fans and had to be offered state protection.

Paul the Octopus

Paul the Octopus supposedly predicted the results of association football matches. He made many accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup which brought him worldwide fame. His success rate is around 85%. He portrayed 11 out of 13 outcomes correctly.

2. Octopuses are experts in solving puzzles and problems. They can escape from sealed jars!

Octopuses are experts in solving puzzles and problems

While the exact extent of their intelligence is debatable, they do have a short and long-term memory. They can distinguish between different shapes and patterns. They can also learn from observation. Octopuses often break out of their aquariums. They have also boarded fishing boats to eat crabs.

1. Some biologists think that if Octopi were more social creatures, they’d out-compete humans and become the dominant species of the planet.

Dominant species of the planet

Scientists have found far more advanced intelligence in octopus than we ever thought. A scientist suggested it’s intelligence could evolve with time. Cephalopods manipulate objects and use tools. They also build other structures if given the time.

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