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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

ABC Wednesday - O is for Octopus


The octopus (traditionally, plural: octopuses) is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms.


An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the centre point of the arms. Octopuses have no internal or external skeleton (although some species have a vestigial remnant of a shell inside their mantle), allowing them to squeeze through tight places.


They may look like suckers but Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviorally flexible of all invertebrates.

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