Friday, June 13, 2014

The Ink Of A Giant Octopus!

'Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.'

-Albert Einstein

Okay, guess what I learned today? Well, I was reading about octopuses in Ocean, The World's Last Wilderness Revealed, American Museum Of Natural History, and I found an incredible fact about the giant octopus:

- When threatened, a giant octopus squirts a cloud of purple ink out through its siphon into the water and at the same time moves backward rapidly using jet propulsion. Potential predators are left confused and disoriented in a cloud of ink. The octopus can repeat this process several times in quick succession.

Isn't that awesome! More to come on octopi in the future!

Picture by: hadesarrow.com




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