![]() ![]() While resting, the Blue-Ringed Octopus are a beige, dark yellow or sometimes gray with a soft sac-like body and sucker-covered tentacles. When prey is located, they leap into action using tentacles to pull their catch towards their mouth, they then use their beak to deliver a paralyzing venom. The Blue-Ringed Octopus usually hunts during the day. When provoked, these octopuses will flash their 40 to 60 glowing blue rings to warn off predators. Renowned for being one of the world's most venomous marine animals, the Blue-Ringed Octopus can inflict total body paralysis – even to humans. ![]() Blue-Ringed Octopus A species with quite the reputation, showing its famous glowing blue rings Here are 15 different types of octopus which showcase the amazing variety of behaviours and characteristics of this marine animal. They can crawl, jet, swim and even walk on two arms, and are also extremely fast learners with an incredible ability to deceive and mimic. Octopuses can look spiky or smooth, they can grow horns on their heads and can match texture, color, pattern and skin. There are now an estimated 300 different species of Octopus. ![]()
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