Thaumoctopus

Deep in the west coast rainforest there is an endangered species called The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. They are 30-33 cm amphibious, that scout their lives through touch and sight. The Tree Octopus spends the beginning of its life in the rainforest. The rainforest has so much drizzle and dew, it keeps the threatened species from becoming shriveled and dead. The exceptional and profound creature has a very large brain to body ratio.

These octopuses are just changing their forms and adapting to become stealthy ninjas of the sea. Just three-tenths of a second is all that they take to camouflage themselves. The octopuses change their colors and patterns without notice. This process is called a rapid adaptive coloration. For example, the chameleons have a slow change in color, forms, and a different limited repertoire. However, octopuses have this quick change in color if they ever felt that danger surrounds them. They would amend the color of their skin to the color of a stone. Octopuses are highly intelligent and gifted animals. According to science, they have most of their neurons in the nerve cords of their arms and the remaining in their brain. This gives them a highly sophisticated nervous system. Octopuses are kind of like puppies sometimes. They are playful and can be found at times to toss empty rocks or bottles and catch them in sort of a playful manner. Like all puppies or most of them, they can be trained to distinguish between patterns, and sometimes, shapes. Octopuses are such magnificent creatures that they can be occasionally seen in cargo ships stealing crabs due to hunger, like the bandits of the sea. Sometimes, I wish I were an octopus, so I can change the color of my skin whenever I want to and escape the things that I never wanted to take part in, without being noticed or even

Lives 500 to 1,000 meters below ocean surface, prefers continental shelves and island slopes. That creature name is Architeuthis dux, also called the giant Squid, which has the largest eyes of any animal on earth with a diameter of about 30 centimeters, great light absorbing capacity, helped them to see better, and able to capture prey easily in the dark sea. Their funnel that located beneath the body, or mantle, creating jet propulsion by pumping water, lay eggs and expel waste. It also serves to squirt ink to dim the water to catch their prey or escaped from enemies, like sperm whales. Two tentacles, each up

Have you ever heard of a Dumbo Octopus? Or even better the Grimpoteuthis. If you haven't, I'm here to reveal to you its species. It’s a rare breed of octopus, which is an aquatic animal that lives deep in the ocean. If you wanted to hear more about it then today is your lucky day. I will be explaining new research and everything there is conducted on this animal.

Thaumoctopus mimicus is said to use imperfect mimicry, defined as the using poor to decent imitations of multiple morphs, rather than strong resemblance to one species (Hanlon et al., 2008; Huffard et al., 2010). As mentioned in the previous section, they replicate the coloration of multiple forms of flatfish, but more dramatic morphs are displayed while individuals are swimming in the mid-water range of the water column or while interacting directly with aggressive species (Norman et al., 2001). Following with the assumption that T. mimicus is a Batesian mimic, the forms that individual octopus use while swimming higher in the water column are those of well-known toxic or unpalatable species. A variety of dive

Camouflage being one of the most impressive aspects of octopuses' intelligence, scientists under the direction of Antonio P. Cribeiro, conducted an exercise designed to see to what extent the skin of octopuses was capable to adapt to its surroundings. The experiment was divided into three parts:

The octopus has several main organs that are vital to its survival; the brain for its intelligence; the ink sack for its defense; and the arms for capturing its prey. This paper will discuss these different organs and how they have evolved physiologically to its environment.

The 59-year-old author, Sy Montgomery, has written 20 books, each based on a specific research or expedition she has taken part in. Her studies, which she descriptively incorporates into her novels, have warranted her various book awards and acclaims. She plunges herself into the lives and mysteries of Earth’s wildlife in order to gain a further understanding of how particular organisms thrive in their wild, dangerous environments. Although Montgomery was no expert in the field of cephalopods, she quickly learned all she could about the intriguing invertebrates through fellow researcher, experts, aquarists, divers, and colleagues encountered throughout her studies about octopuses. Through diligent research via articles, studies, field

Theses tree octopuses have some similarities to humans and differences as well. In one way that they are like

The Giant Pacific Octopuses are found though out the Pacific Ocean. It’s found north in Alaska, South in Mexico, west in Japan and East in California. So they really can tolerate all kinds of water temperature. It is more likely to find it in tidal pools and they live in the water depth from 110 meters down to 1500m. (Schwab, 1987) They eat fish, lobster, shellfish etc. They crack them open by their mouth. The way they reproduce is that male Octopuses have genital bags inside them. They will insert a hectocotylized arm into the female and then release sperm. The entire process will take 2-3 hours. They could change their skin color to fit into the environment so they really can fit into different conditions. (Anderson, & Mather, 2007)

In Creatures Under the Deep Sea it talks about all kinds of animals from small things like little Octopuses called dumbo to huge things like a Vampire Squid. Vampire squids curl up into a ball when feeling scared or under pressured. The scientific name of this squid is Cephalopod.This creature also has glowing eyes and tentacles. This proves that life can thrive if their is just a little bit of light. The cute little Dumbo Octopus it's called is a little 8 armed creature. The Dumbo Octopus is an animal that lives on the ocean floor which is 9,800 to 13,000 feet deep. They are small creatures, around 8 inches tall. They feed off of worms and other underwater insects. We have only discovered five percent of the ocean, but we have still

(continued from box above) Mimicry is when one species has evolved to resemble another organism. Müllerian mimicry is when two or more distasteful species may benefit from a shared warning coloration pattern, such as the monarch and viceroy butterflies who both share the orange and black patterns. Batesian mimicry is when harmless organisms can gain a selective advantage by resembling poisonous species, such as coral snake and a scarlet king snake. Many prey can also deter predators by startle coloration, which means that prey have spots which can resemble large eyes. Aggressive mimicry is when a predator can seem harmless to lure prey within a striking distance. One example of this is the frogfish which uses a dangling lure to attract fish,

“[The giant squid has] two feeding tentacles, each up to 10 meters long. [They are] tipped with hundreds of powerful, toothed suckers” (Database). These huge tentacles can be longer than thirty feet. In addition to these two feeding tentacles, the squid has “eight arms, each about half the length of the feeding tentacles” which also have “thousands of powerful, toothed suckers” (Database). “Their arms help them guide its prey from its tentacles to its beak” (Database). The squid’s beak is “located at the base of the feeding tentacles and arms. [It] slices prey into pieces for eating” (Database). Something else that is cool about the squid is its changing color. “At [the] ocean surface, [a squid is] reddish orange to pink, with white mottling. In deep water, [they are] silvery to gold, depending

The Longlure Frogfish can be found in the tropical western part of the Atlantic Ocean next to sea sponges. It is disbursed from Bermuda and the Bahamas to the coasts of the central and south America. It is referred to as a frogfish because of its similar characteristics compared to those of a frog. The Frogfish has really thick skin and highly modified scales called dermal spicules. It is round and short, generally growing up to 11cm. Since one of their main purposes is to prey for food, they rarely use their fins to swim and instead, they have fins that act as feet which help them walk across the ocean. It has very small eyes and a large mouth pointing up which helps them eat their prey.

The octopus skin horn is another mushroom type fungus found in many parts of the world. These plants start out as an egg and quickly evolve into this monster of a plant. And what’s unique about this plant is that can unfold its arms and reach out as if it was an octopus (hence the name). As the arms unfold, the plant reveals the interior which contains the glena which is just some tissues. [] What’s also interesting about this plant is that it takes on this pinkish appearance as if it were a dying plant in order to attract flys and capture them.