Octopuses (octopi?)

…or is it octopodes?

isn’t this little octopus the cutest thing you have ever seen? I watch the video below frequently when I need a mood boost.

An octopus has a sharp beak, even at this tiny size. It could give you a hard nip.

Look how smart they are!

Octopuses fascinate me these days, even though they terrified me as a child. The suckers on their tentacles and the shape of their bodies used to freak me out. I blame movies and stories that went around the playground at school. Mind you, the blue-ringed octopus bite can be deadly.

Octopuses are very interesting cephalopods

• They can change colour
• Their blood is blue
• They have three hearts and nine brains
• They die after mating (male) and hatching eggs (female)
• They use their nine brains to control their eight tentacles, which can do things independently
• They can solve puzzles and navigate complicated situations, for example figuring out how to escape from a boat.
• The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are more like 16 feet and 110 lbs. (Source: National Geographic)

I really enjoyed the film My Octopus Teacher, which won an Academy Award for best documentary feature.