The Boy in the Submarine episode 6: The Giant Pacific Octopus

The Giant Pacific Octopus is the smartest of all the cephalopods, it is great at solving problems!

Owen

Today we are talking about the Giant Pacific Octopus: a creature as big as a man and nearly as heavy, but so squishy it can fit inside a large jelly jar!

The Giant pacific octopus likes to hide, and arranges junk and bits of coral and seaweed into a garden to help it hide and to protect its eggs. It is naturally curious, and often plays with things it finds on the bottom of the ocean. They are so clever and so curious that special lining (made of astroturf) has to be put at the edges of their tanks in aquariums or they will sneak out at night to explore other tanks in the same aquarium.

They are sneaky hunters, and catch crabs, lobsters, shrimp, clams, squid, and abalones. While they are big when they are all grown up, their babies are so tiny that they are part of the clouds of zooplankton that big filter feeders eat.