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Octopus at Tsukiji fish market Fishermen hunting octopus. People of several cultures eat octopus. The arms and sometimes other body parts are prepared in various ways, often varying by species and/or geography. Octopuses are sometimes eaten or prepared alive, a practice that is controversial due to scientific evidence that octopuses experience ...
An octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ ɒ k ˈ t ɒ p ə d ə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3]). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids , cuttlefish , and nautiloids .
The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusk belonging to the class Cephalopoda. Octopus vulgaris is one of the most studied of all octopus species, and also one of the most intelligent. It ranges from the eastern Atlantic, extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the southern coast of England , to the southern coast of South Africa.
Since these octopuses do not live for long, they mature rapidly and can hunt for food to feed themselves right after hatching. [8] Hatchlings feed on amphipods or mysid shrimp. [9] [10] As they grow, the list of what they eat grows with them. California two-spot octopuses eat anything they can find, like fish and crustaceans.
East Pacific red octopus, rescued from a gull near Los Osos, California. Octopus rubescens (commonly the East Pacific red octopus which is a Cephalopod, and also known as the ruby octopus, a preferred common name due to the abundance of octopus species colloquially known as red octopus [1]) is the most commonly occurring shallow-water octopus on much of the North American West Coast and a ...
The practice of eating live seafood, such as fish, crab, oysters, baby shrimp, or baby octopus, is widespread. Oysters are typically eaten live. [1] The view that oysters are acceptable to eat, even by strict ethical criteria, has notably been propounded in the seminal 1975 text Animal Liberation, by philosopher Peter Singer.
The octopuses seen in the videos threw silt, shells, and algae at other nearby octopuses. To do so, they gathered up the debris underneath their bodies using their arms.
Video of San-nakji. San-nakji (Korean: 산낙지) is a variety of hoe (raw dish) made with long arm octopus (Octopus minor), a small octopus species called nakji in Korean and is sometimes translated into "baby octopus" due to its relatively small size compared to the giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini). [1]