Giant Pacific Octopus

Giant Pacific Octopus 

Giant Pacific Octopus can easily down prey. It can grow 5 meters long . It creeping on the seabeds . It found in west Alaska and east of Russia . When it born it is smallest than a rice but it grow completely it grow bigger than a adult human being. 

Predators

As paralarvae, many other zooplankton and filter feeders prey upon this life stage. As adults, marine mammals, such as harbor seals, sea otters, and sperm whales depend upon the giant Pacific octopus as a source of food. Pacific sleeper sharks are also confirmed predators of this species. In addition, the octopus (along with cuttlefish and squid) are major sources of protein for human consumption. 3.3 million tons are commercially fished, worth 6 billion annually. Over thousands of years, humans have caught them via lures, spears, pot traps, nets and using only bare hands.

Diet

Additionally, consumed carcasses of this same shark species have been found in giant Pacific octopus middens in the wild, providing strong evidence of these octopuses preying on small sharks in their natural habitat. In May 2012, amateur photographer Ginger Morneau was widely reported to have photographed a wild giant Pacific octopus attacking and drowning a seagull, which would demonstrate the species is not above eating any available source of protein within its size range, even birds.

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