GIANT PACIFIC OCTOPUS

This blue blooded, intelligent and sneaky animal is a relative of slugs and snails. It has a soft body and a powerful, parrot like beak used for ripping apart its prey. The Octopus is considered one of the most intelligent invertebrates around. While intelligence is hard to define even in humans, what we do know is that Octopus have the ability to learn quickly and retain this information to use again. They have been known to repeatedly squeeze into fishermen’s crab traps, eat the crabs and get out again! They have the largest brain to body size ratio of any invertebrate known to man and have a complex central nervous system with a nerve cord running down the centre of each arm. Giant Pacific Octopus are often found in areas with rocky boulders and reefs, where they can find shelter and make themselves a den. They are the largest of the Octopus species and they can live up to 4 years on average.