![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]() Or, what we call it, our Octopedia!Ĭonnect with other octopus lovers via the OctoNation Facebook group, ! Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date with the conservation, education, and ongoing research of cephalopods. If you want to educate yourself some more about all sorts of different cephalopods, take a look at our encyclopedia. If you enjoyed this post about octopus predators, check out this one on what octopuses eat! Octopuses and other cephalopods are a critical part of marine food webs! Octopuses are predators, which means they hunt and eat other animals for food, they’re just not apex predators (animals at the top of the food chain). There have been reports of severed octopus arms suffocating a predator (like a bottlenose dolphin) even after it’s eaten the rest of an octopus’s body!ĭon’t sleep on those suckers, octo-predators! So, do octopuses have predators, or are THEY the predators? Hunting octopuses is a dangerous business. Via Science Learning Hub and University of Waikato □ Octopus Fun Fact Thankfully, baby octopuses grow fast! Pretty soon after hatching, octopuses start moving up the food chain. Newly hatched octopus paralarvae qualify as zooplankton, and a LOT of animals eat zooplankton. Zooplankton are usually tiny, even microscopic, but they don’t have to be!Īnything that drifts instead of swims is technically planktonic (i.e., sea jellies!). In the ocean, believe it or not, most food chains start with sunlight! Seagrasses, seaweeds, and billions of tiny organisms called phytoplankton that lives in the upper, sunlit layers of the ocean all create energy from sunlight.Īnimals eat the seagrasses, seaweeds, and phytoplankton, and then other animals eat those animals, and BOOM-you’ve got a food chain.Ī food web is a grouping of interconnected food chains that represents the complicated nature of … well, nature.Ī critical link in all food chains is zooplankton, typically juvenile forms of animals that spend part of their lives drifting in the ocean. ![]()
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