Giant Pacific octopus
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus species on Earth. It lives along the coasts of the North Pacific, from Baja California up to Alaska and across to Japan and Korea. It plays an important part in the health of deep sea ecosystems.1

Co renconuscher el
- It is the largest octopus species, with adults usually weighing around 15 kg.1
- Its arm span can reach up to 4.3 m.1
- Its largest suckers are about 6.4 cm across.1
- It is well camouflaged and often hides in kelp or its den.1
- Piles of shells and bones outside a den, called den litter, can show that one is nearby.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.
Sch'el morda
- Immobilisaziun cun squitsch: envolva ina bandascha elastica ferma sur la morsa e lura vi da l'entir member ensi, fixescha el cun ina stecca e tegna la persuna dal tut immobila, fin che l'agid arriva.
- In polip cun anels blaus u ina lindorna conica po far che ina persuna na respira betg pli, entant ch'ella è anc dasda: clama agid e sajas pront da dar respiraziun artifiziala, fin che l'equipa da l'ambulanza surpiglia.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
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Fatgs
Octopuses are ranked as the most intelligent invertebrates, and this species can recognise people it often meets and open childproof bottles.1
Its largest suckers can each support about 16 kg.1
The largest individual may have weighed 270 kg, with an arm span of 9.8 m, according to the fisherman who caught it.1
It spends about 94% of its time hidden in dens, kelp or camouflage.1
Unlike most octopuses, which live about one year, it lives three to five years.1
It is the largest octopus species on Earth.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Enteroctopus dofleini
- Gruppa
- Lindornas conicas e polips
- Famiglia
- Enteroctopodidae2
- Urden
- Octopoda
- Continents
- Ocean Pacific, Ils oceans
- Poppins
- The female lays between 120,000 and 400,000 eggs on a hard surface and guards them for about 6 months, until they hatch. She dies soon after the young hatch. Hatchlings are about the size of a grain of rice, and very few survive to adulthood.1
- Durada da vita
- circa 5 onns1
- Privel per umans
- 1 / 5: Lev3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Giant Pacific octopus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Enteroctopus dofleini (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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