23 Kasım 2008 Pazar

the most elastic creature in sea...



the octopuses.... when this word is said, you think it is and eight armed animal but it has some interesting features...they are the most elastic creature living in the sea. they are so elastic that they can get through a hole of two cms because they have no bone or spine in their body. so they can pucker in so small sizes.But unfortunately these animals' lifespans are so short. The reason of this situation is that they don't take nourishment for a long time after they mate. Male octopuses die in a short time, but females die after they spawn. This feaure enables them tohave some abilities. one of them is to learn quickly. because of having short life expectancy, parents can't teach their baby octopuses to do things so babies have to learn some behaviours on their own. According to their body size, they are strong animals and can do some interesting things. the stories of octopuses getting out of aquarium to go to bathtub or getting into fishers' vessels to eat something are widespread. And also it is proved that they have both long-term memory and short-term memory. In additon, one type of octopuses has an interesting feature. It can imitate shapes of so many animals easily!!! it is so that they can exactly copy the movements of animals which they imitate. It can copy lion fish, eel, tongue fish ... and so on. As you can understand for doing tihs imitaion it is necessary to have intelligence and so they are intelligent animals!

3 yorum:

Samet dedi ki...

I want to see one but it is very difficult. It is one of the most rarely seen animal spices in the world and they are described very bad and crucial animals to us in everywhere

neslihan bozoglu dedi ki...

it is so interesting.we always believe and say that the animals have no intelligence but i think octopuses destroy this generalization:)but one think which attacts my attention is that if they die so quickly after mating how does their descent go on?...

Tuğba Begüm Abalı dedi ki...

this is wonderfull!! It showes us how great the world and even how greater the world undersea..:) But to tell the truth I must say that I have seen them a lot of times before; they gives you pain if they touch to your skin somehow; and I know the feeling of touching the death ones of them :D:D In Çanakkale Brigde; the big ships passing there spoil their homes at the bottom of the sea and the dead ones come to the beach. Sometimes you can even take a step on them without noticing :D..