hey where do octopuses poop out of? I mean I know it’s probably an anus but the beak is where you’d expect the anus to be, so where is the anus?
Right on the side of the head/mantle!
Wait so do they have one on either side or is their anus asymmetrical? It’s like a muffler?
My kneejerk reaction was to say ‘yes just one anus’ but I’ve never thought about this before and animals are totally weird and awesome so I actually went to google and typed ‘how many anuses do octopuses have’ in the search bar to find the answer.
The answer, which I discovered is that yes octopuses have just a singular anus, like a muffler (which is such a great analogy I love it!!), was discovered thanks to this prezi which compares the human digestive system to the digestive system of an octopus and has a picture of an octopus intestine!
The flamingo tongue snail is a species of small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies. This Cyphoma is the most common of several species in the genus which lives in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to northern coast of Brazil, including the Bermuda, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles. When it is alive, the snail appears bright orange-yellow in color with black markings. However, these colors are not in the shell, but are only
due to live mantle
tissue which usually cover the shell. The mantle flaps can be
retracted, exposing the shell, but this usually happens only when the
animal is attacked. The shells reach on average 25–35 millimetres of length. It feeds by browsing on the living tissues of the soft corals on which it lives. This species used to be common, but it has become rather uncommon in heavily visited areas because of over-collecting by snorkelers and scuba
divers, who make the mistake of thinking that the bright colors are in
the shell of the animal.
This creature of the see is pretty rad. It is immune to the stings of the Man O’ War jellyfish and actually rips off the jelly fish’s tentacles and uses them as a whip. The males have a specially modified third right arm which stores sperm, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, the male octopus will detach his arm place into the mantle of the female to fertilize her eggs. The male dies shortly after mating.
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