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    Octopuses

    Sep 03, 2020 3 minutes
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    Octopus

    Class: Cephalopod

    Diet: Carnivore

    Average life span in the wild: Six months to five years

    Weight: 0.1 to 200 kilograms

    Size: Up to nine metres

    Octopuses are sort of like the superheroes of the animal kingdom, with so many amazing abilities and adaptations that they begin to look greedy. They can solve mazes, open screw-top jars and use tools. They can walk, they can swim and they can even propel themselves at high speed. They can change colour, imitate other animals, squirt ink, inject poison and jettison their own arms. When you can do all

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