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Octopuses

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Octopuses and Birds

Most species of octopuses have a beak underneath those famous eight arms on their underside and it can be two sharp hooking points sort of like the beak of a parrot which is also very strange. It's strong enough to crunch apart prey like crabs and clams and octopuses also will often use paralyzing saliva to catch prey. And so that's why the blue ring octopus has this toxic saliva it's not out to get you it's just living in the ocean hunting stuff.

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