The octopus, which is also called "devilfish," is a predatory mollusc with a pouch-shaped body and eight powerful arms (I thought they were called tentacles? Can you have arms if you don't have legs!? _th) with two rows of suction discs on each. It also has an ink sac, which it uses to darken the water when it senses danger. Octopuses (C'mon - where's the editor?! OCTOPI! _th) are related to squids, cuttlefish, nautiloid, and other molluscs such as snails, mussels and clams. They can creep over hard surfaces using their arms; when they travel through water they move by jet propulsion, taking in water and ejecting it forcibly through a funnel as their muscular mantle contracts. They vary in size from a few centimetres to the giant octopus of the Pacific Ocean which can grow to over 10
Day Two - Reason #2 - Octopi have many nicknames.
Much like Las Vegas, Taco Bell and Senator Obama, the Octopus is a creature with beaucoup nom de guerres. As witnessed in the above passage there are at least 5 legitimate ways of naming this mysterious creature of the deep. I should be so lucky. I have no known alias' aside from my blogger identity, and let's face it, I am hardly a deep creature.
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