It also has a bizarre technique of hunting prey—it will tear off jellyfish tentacles to fish for food. The blanket octopus possesses the largest sex size discrepancy among all animals.
The keepers feed the octopus with mussels and prawns and bits of fish and crab. Sometimes they put the food in a dog toy for him to tease out with his tentacles, so he can practise his hunting skills.
When given several different stimuli at the lab, such as dripping fish juice into a tank, chemotactile receptors on the octopus’ suckercups were activated for smell and taste, while ...
a pair of small fish are spawning. An eel is curled in a hole. A large hermit crab, in its borrowed shell, comes clunking past. And there, sitting on a rock, is a small algae octopus. As you watch ...
Goatfish, for example, often took the lead in encouraging other fish to explore new environments, while the octopus acted as a leader, deciding when and where the group should pause.