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Mimic Octopus
An octopus that’s brown and white, enormous head, tentacles long about 12-15 inches, and eyes black as night. The Mimic Octopus is a creature found in the old 1990’s in Indonesia.This spontaneous sea animal can transform to another animal for example sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, brittle stars, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, flounders and etc. This animal protectsitself by changing color and appearance. When the Mimic Octopus was being attacked by a damselfish, the octopus was observed as a banded sea snake, a damselfish predator. This is an amazing sea animal!Its body grows up to 60 cm. or 2 ft. This fascinating animal is not that big, nor small. The mimic octopus lives exclusively in nutrient-rich estuarine bays of Indonesia and Malaysia full ofpotential prey. It uses a jet of water through its funnel to glide over the sand while searching for prey, typically small fish, crabs, and worms. Often unable to escape such predators, its mimicry ofdifferent poisonous creatures serves as its best defense.
This octopus mimics venomous sole, lionfish, sea snakes, sea anemones, and jellyfish. For example, the mimic is able to imitate a sole bypulling its arms in, flattening to a leaf-like shape, and increasing speed using a jet like propulsion that resembles a sole. When spreading its legs and lingering on the ocean bottom, its arms trailbehind to simulate the lion fish's fins. By raising all of its arms above its head with each arm bent in a curved, zigzag shape to resemble the lethal tentacles of a fish-eating sea anemone, it detersmany fish. It imitates a large jellyfish by swimming to the surface and then slowly sinking with its arms spread evenly around its body.
The octopus often feeds by covering an area of sand undera disc of webs while using the tips of its fine arms to flush small animals into its suckers. It can probe its arms deep into burrows or holes to search for prey which it can then pass to its mouth....
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