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Octopus at Tsukiji fish market Fishermen hunting octopus. People of some 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 pain.
Akkorokamui (Japanese: アッコロカムイ, Ainu: At-kor-kamuy) is a gigantic octopus-like monster from Ainu folklore, similar to the Nordic Kraken, which supposedly lurks in Uchiura Bay in Hokkaido. [1] It is said that its enormous body can reach sizes of up to 120 metres (390 feet) in length. [2] Its name can be translated as "tentacle ...
The octopus Thaumoctopus mimicus is known to mimic a number of different venomous organisms it cohabitates with to deter predators. [46] While background matching, a cephalopod changes its appearance to resemble its surroundings, hiding from its predators or concealing itself from prey.
To understand the inner details of octopus lives, researchers dived for about a month at a reef off the coast of Eilat, Israel, and tracked 13 octopuses for a total of 120 hours using several cameras.
Sometimes the octopus catches more prey than it can eat, and the den is often surrounded by a midden of dead and uneaten food items. Other creatures, such as fish, crabs, molluscs and echinoderms, often share the den with the octopus, either because they have arrived as scavengers, or because they have survived capture. [86]
The koromodako is a terrifying octopus-like yōkai that lives in the ocean that borders Kyoto and Fukui. While they appear small, the koromodako can grow to large sizes if they are threatened. They can become large enough to engulf fish, large ships, and anything that might eat them.
The arm crown of modern nautilids (genera Nautilus and Allonautilus) is very distinct in comparison to coleoids.Unlike the ten-armed Decabrachia or the eight-armed Octopodiformes, nautilus may possess any number of tentacles (cirri) from 50 to over 90 tentacles depending on the sex and individual.
The NROL-39 mission patch, depicting the National Reconnaissance Office as an octopus with a long reach. Cephalopods, usually specifically octopuses, squids, nautiluses and cuttlefishes, are most commonly represented in popular culture in the Western world as creatures that spray ink and use their tentacles to persistently grasp at and hold onto objects or living creatures.