Deep Sea Diners: The Eating Habits of an Octopus

Have you ever seen someone eat crab legs? It is a lot of hard work. It takes two hands to enjoy this messy meal. Octopuses like to eat crab legs. They like to eat the rest of the crab, too! They might not have two hands, but they do have eight arms. It's a good thing they do because they use all eight of them to find and eat their food.


Octopuses eat many kinds of sea creatures. They prey on crabs and mollusks, like snails and slugs. They also eat shrimp and small fish. To find food, an octopus reaches in between rocks with the tips of its arms. When it .....


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