In our large new giant octopus exhibit you will discover the incredible features of this amazing animal.
On its eight legs and thousands of suckers, an octopus creeps, crawls and glides over the ocean floor.
An octopus has variable speeds. To escape danger, the octopus sucks in water and expels it through a siphon, whooshing away at top speed.
Suckers on its legs give an octopus tremendous gripping power. It takes a forty-pound pull to release the grip of a three-pound octopus.
Octopuses can also express their emotions by changing the color, pattern or texture of their skin to match their mood.
Octopuses are clever bags of tricks not to be missed. They have survived millions of years by using their awesome array of abilities.
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Quick and keen, these active hunters live lives of magic.
Our giant octopuses are masters of disguise, changing skin texture and color to blend in with their surroundings. This is the largest species of octopus in the world can grow to nearly 30 feet long and weigh nearly 100 pounds.
These amazing animals have survived hundreds of millions of years in the sea by using their awesome array of abilities. An octopus's eight tentacles are lined with suckers that can "taste" sweet, sour or bitter, or feel if something is rough or smooth. It can squeeze through spaces as small as its hard, parrotlike beak.
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