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Octopi are ambush predators who wait for fish to swim close enough to be captured in its tenacles. Once captured the fish is drawn to its mouth and beak which are on the underside center of its body where it is devoured.

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An octopuss is a preditor and hunts and catches its prey in its tentacles

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By grasping its testicles around the food with its suction cups and sucking it up.

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It eats everything it touches.

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Octopus are hunters. They seek out prey and pounce, holding it down with their eight arms and biting into it with their sharp beaks.

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Does an octopus obtain food?

An octopuss is a preditor and hunts and catches its prey in its tentacles


Is the octopus hunted for food?

Yes octopus are hunted for food. Octopus are used in Mediterranean food, Caribbean food, and Asian food. Some octopus are eaten alive and animal rights groups argue that octopus should be killed humanly and then eaten.


Where do octopus get food?

They get it from the oceans


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When do octopus eat there food?

When they are hungry


What body part of octopus is used in getting and eating food?

an octopus uses its tentacles to catch food


Does an octopus use the restroom?

yes an octopus does produce waste becaus the food it process's has to come out


How can you help the octopus?

not to hunt it for food and medicine


What is the food chain of a dumbo octopus?

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What does a octopus do when it runs out of food?

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What eats octopus?

Whales eat octopus [sperm whales have giant octopus as a favorite food]. Octopus eat each other octopus. Humans eat octopus. Anything that can catch an octopus (that isn't easy) will eat it. Killer whales [or Orcas, a kind of toothed whale] eat octopuses.