Johnston+Octopus

=__//**Octopus** //__=

//** Habitat **[[image:1392726714_4cf5b5b3a2_m.jpg align="right" caption="White Spotted Octopus 01" link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottbutler/1392726714/"]]//

 * //Octopuses lives in the ocean.//
 * //Octopuses mostly like to live in the coastal waters and ponds.//
 * //Octopuses also live in sandy places.//
 * //Octopuses live in depths of 1000 to 24,000 feet.//

// Food //

 * //Octopuses eats many crustacean animals.//
 * //Octopuses go hunting in the evening or at night.//
 * //Octopuses really hunt for a very short period of time.//
 * //When an octopus eats something, it usually uses it's suckers.//
 * //An octopus uses it's beak to kill the animal in order to eat it.//

// Description //

 * //Octopuses are Grey, brown, white and bright red.//
 * //An octopus isn't really given a shape.//
 * //Males weigh 80-90 pounds and females weigh 30-40 pounds.//
 * //Octopuses change color to be like it's habitat.//
 * //Octopuses also squirt ink to confuse it's prey or predator.//
 * //Octopuses are in the// //Animalia kingdom.//
 * //They are in the invertebrate phyla.//
 * //They are in the// //mollusca class.//

// **Life Cycle** //

 * //An octopus lays eggs.//
 * //Well octopuses do lay eggs but the young always comes out of the mother's body.//
 * //Once the female octopus gives birth, it dies.//
 * //The babies are swept away into the sea to live by themselves.//
 * //When a baby octopus is born, it is like a small version of it's parents.//
 * //When octopuses are small they are prey but when they grow, they start to be precautionary about predators.//
 * //When a male is one year old or a female is 2 or 3 years old, they start to mate.//
 * //Then the cycle starts all over again.//
 * //Female octopuses can live for two years because they give birth when they are two years old. Males can live one year longer than females.//

//**Mythology**//
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 * // L ong time ago, no one went to the bottom of the sea. //
 * // Artists drew pictures they think are under the sea using their imagination. //
 * // Died out octopus used to wash up on the shores. //
 * // Many people said back then that octopuses were devil fish. //
 * // Those stories spread around and people started to make stories about "devil fish". //
 * // Here is one story, if anyone comes near the "devil fish," he or she will disappear. //

//**Fun facts**//

 * // Do you know octopuses lay about 100,000 eggs in a year? //
 * // Newborn octopuses are the size of plankton. //
 * // Many octopuses only live for one year. //
 * // Octopuses are predators. //
 * // The octopus species are very smart . //