WHY I CHOSE IT

• Giant Pacific Octapus
• I choose it because I like octapuses

Invertebrate
This means that the octopus is extremely flexible and can squeeze through tight places.

Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Genus: Enteroctopus
Species: E. dofleini

CLOSE RELATIVES

• One is the cuttlefish
• The other is natulius

Octopus usually live in rocks, coral, or burrows and because they are invertebrates, the can squeeze through narrow passageways giving them a bigger variety of possible homes. Their homes provide them with protection and gives females a place to keep their eggs. If you discover an octopus's home, then you might find the remains of its past few meals nearby. However finding an octopus's den is not an easy task. They have been known to scatter rocks and shells around their home to help hide themselves.

The niche of an octopus is to be both predator and prey. As a predator, octopi like to hang around coral reefs, and in this location, they are able to eat a lot of the creatures that call the reef home. However, the niche of octopus is to also serve as food for bigger sea life like fish, sharks, and whales.

PREDATORS AND PREY

• Predator: sharks, whales
• Prey: fish, shrimp

BIOMES

• Found in subtropical
• Tropical and
• Temperate waters

USES OF OCTOPUS

• Food often prepared by species of geography
• As a pet
• Used in cooking special dishes of food

Endangered or not?
Not the entire species of octopuses are endangered, just some sub species due to the killing for food and ink for cooking

FACTS

• They can solve problems, as when they remove a plug or unscrew a lid to get prey from a container.
• Some octopuses carry shells for pretection
• The amazing mimic octopuses are capable of changing their body shape to mimic other animals
• There are around 300 recognized octopus species
• If all else fails, an octopus can lose an arm to escape a predator's grasp and re-grow it later