Animal facts!

Animal Facts:   Octopus 

Name, Scientific & Te Reo name: Scientific name : Octopoda   Te Reo name:: kōti	Photo/Picture: Octopus
Dietary: Fish,Starfish,algae,crabs,snails,slugs, Shrimp and small fish	Habitat: Under rocksand  and in a tiny cave and if it were in an aquarium it will live under small little gaps
Life span:  An octopus can live up to 3 or 5 years And if a female gave birth to babies the 1mother will die	Appearance: Their tentacles look like curls and they kinda look like an umbrella.
Characteristics: -Octopus are different to other animals because they have 3 hearts. - They have 9 brains, 1 is in the head and the others are in it’s tentacles  - Octopus can camouflage but they are colour blind.	Size: The longest octopus is up to 14 to 30 feet long And the smallest octopus is 1.5 cm
Locomotion: Octopus has two ways to move they can use their arms to move around when there hunting and when.The second one is when they the force of the water  squirting out pushes the octopus along, allowing it to swim backward through the ocean. This is called jet propulsion.	Sensing: Smelling and seeing.

Interesting Facts: 1. Octopus has 3 hearts because Two hearts pump blood  to the gills and the heart in the middle will go into the rest of the octopuses body! .  2. Octopuses have blue blood so they can survive in the deep ocean.  .3Also octopuses have 9 hearts one heart is in the middle and the rest of the hearts are in the octopus tentacles so octopus tentacles have a mind of their own.  4.They can also camouflage.  But scientists are still working out how they can octopus can camouflage but they can’t see colour and plus they are colour blind.