Information report

Title: octopuses

Common name:octopus

Scientific name:octopus

Te Reo Māori name: wheke

Habitat

→ Octopus live in tide pools. Common octopus live in shallow tide pools. The giant pacific octopus lives in 330 deep and 60 degrees cold.

Diet

→ Octopuses diet is crab. But they also eat crayfish shrimp shellfish and sea slugs. Octopus eat the inside of shellfish crayfish and crab.




Behaviour/ movement

→Octopuses when they feel threatened they squirt out ink. Octopuses can also go camouflage they can look like rocks. Octopuses can squeeze between rocks and then they go camouflage so predators can’t see them.

Special features (adaptations)

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→ Octopuses tentacles are long so they can reach crabs under rocks to eat them. Octopus can also camouflage in any colour.