what is the giant octopuses habitat?
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deep dark voids of water.
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Cephalopod transtates literally to Head Foot.  THey are a class of mollusks that include squids and octopi.
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The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), at 1.1 meters (3 ft 9 in) tall and 30 kilograms (75 lb) in weight, is the tallest and heaviest of all penguins. It is the only penguin that breeds during the winter in Antarctica. Emperor Penguins eat mainly crustaceans (such as krill) but also indulge in consuming small fish and squid. In the wild, Emperor Penguins typically live for 20 years, but some records indicate a maximum lifespan of around 40 years. (The Emperor Penguin should not be confused with the King Penguin or the Royal Penguin.)\n\n\n\nPhysical characteristics\n\nAdults average about 1.1 metres (3 ft 9 in) and weigh 30 kilograms (75 lb) or more. The head and wings are black, the abdomen white, back bluish grey, bill purplish pink. On the sides of the neck, there are two golden circular stripes.\n\nLike the King Penguin counterpart, a male Emperor Penguin has an abdominal fold, the "brood pouch", between its legs and lower abdomen.\n\nEmperor penguin chicks are covered with a thick layer of light gray down. This covering ensures that they retain as much heat as possible, vital at this early stage when they are not capable of maintaining their body temperature. In addition, the infant emperor penguin's orbital area is covered in white downy feathers, unlike the all-black feathered head of the adult.\n\nA distinguishing characteristic between males and females is their call.\n\n\n\nEcology and behaviour\nEmperor Penguins, Ross Sea, Antarctica.\n\nEmperor Penguins are social animals, both foraging and nesting in groups. In severe weather the penguins huddle together for protection. They may be active day or night. Sexually mature adults travel throughout most of the year between the nesting area and foraging areas in the ocean. From January to March, Emperor Penguins disperse into the oceans, traveling and foraging in groups.\n\nTo find food, these penguins need to dive 150 to 250 meters (490-820 feet) into the Southern Ocean. The penguins can venture deeper, the deepest diving on record being 565 m (1870 ft). The longest they can hold their breath when underwater is 20 minutes. Their swimming speed is 6 km to 9 km per hour (4-6 mph), but they can achieve up to 19 km per hour (12 mph) in short bursts.\n\nOn land they alternate between walking with a wobbling gait and sliding over the ice on their bellies, propelled by their feet and their flipper-like wings. During the beginning of the Antarctic winter, in March and April, all mature Emperor penguins travel to colonial nesting areas, often walking 50 to 120 km from the edge of the pack ice.\n\nIn response to the cold, emperor penguins stand in compact huddles ranging in size between ten and many hundreds of birds, each leaning forward on a neighbor. Those on the outside tend to face inward and push slowly forward. This produces a slow churning action, giving each bird a turn on the inside.\n\nIn the wild, Penguin predators include Antarctic giant petrels, (Macronectes giganteus), Leopard seals, orca, skua, and sharks. Abandoned sled dogs and their progeny formerly preyed upon penguins before the removal of dogs from Antarctica.\n\n\n\n\nReproduction\n\nEmperor Penguins first begin to breed at approximately five years of age. Emperor penguins travel about 90 km inland to reach the breeding site. In March or April, the penguins start courtship, when the temperature can be as low as -40 degrees C (-40°F). Emperor penguins are serially monogamous. They have only one mate each year, and keep faithfully to that one other penguin, but each year, most choose different mates. In May or June, the female penguin lays one 450-gram (1 pound) egg, but at this point her nutritional reserves are exhausted and she must immediately return to the sea to feed. Very carefully, she transfers the egg to the male penguin, who will incubate the egg in his brood pouch for about 65 days consecutively without food by surviving on his fat reserves and spending the majority of the time
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We really don't know much about the giant squid or the ecosystem it inhabits.\n\nLiving giant squid have only been observed once, very recently.  Everything else we know comes from dead specimens.\n\nThey are likely very important predators in their environment, feeding on pretty much any kind of fish they want.  \n\nIn turn, they also appear to the favourite prey of the Physeter, or Sperm Whale.  Sperm Whale often bear hundreds of scars on their faces from the ragged tooth-lined suckers of the Giant Squid, obtained in titanic deep-sea battles, and the hard, indigestible beaks of Giant Squid are often found in the stomach contents of the whales.\n\nSo no one really knows what would happen to their ecosystem without Giant Squids.  We don't even know how many of them there are.
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There are so many...how about an octopus?  That's got a lot of interesting characteristics.
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Mmmm..I wonder why. Last week thousands of squids died in a beach next to my locaction, and a samll whale died this week also.\nWe have La Niña phenomenon here (south Pacific...very very south), means a rise in the avarage temperature of the sea. Maybe with that temperature some bacterias or viruses begin to multiply and they affect the behaviour of animals.\nMaybe there are changes in magnetic fields that affect their orientation.
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Try and look in your own backyards at home.\nLook out for little ET footprints coming out of the water and grew to like salt in planet of apes.\nIf you survive long enough will see ET leave with time in becoming a pillar of salt in planet of apes.
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Hollow-bodied animals are the second simplest invertabrates. Some examples are jellyfish, hydra, coral, and sea anemones. Hallow-bodied animals are invertabrates with one opening and a hollow center.Hollow-bodied animals are like sponges in some ways. Hollow-bodied animals live in water, and some of them look like plants.Some hydra, sea anemones, and most coral attach themselves to rocks or the ocean floor.Some, like jellyfish swim or float in the water. Hollow-bodied animals can regenerate or regrow missing body parts.Hollow-bodied animals are more complex than sponges because they have a mouth and tentacles that help get their food into their mouth. Tentacles also can protect from predetors because they sting. Coral unlike hydra and sea anemones lives in colonies or large groups. Coral may look like tree branches and can be used in many different ways like for decorating.
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Branchinecta gigas or giant fairy shrimps are mostly found in in the playas of California's southern deserts. Check out this site to know more about it, it may give you sufficient clue where to find them:\nhttp://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Branchinecta+gigas
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There's the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.  That's probably what you're looking for.\n\nEnjoy.
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Animals that live really deep, like squid, whales, octopus, and some deep-water strange fish (Anglerfish, etc.)
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octopus:  The big part is called the mantle.\nsnail:  The underneath is called the foot.
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2 meters long i think. Or was it 5? i cant remmeber. Im doing a report on the discovery of a giant squid.
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It depends how they've been brought up.  Some octopuses teach their offspring to be polite, to say please and thankyou in all the right places,  and even to give up their seat to a lady.  \n\nSadly, these traditions are not much in evidence now.  \nIn fact,  I doubt if you will ever have been thanked by an octopus.  \nMany of the young seem to do whatever they like, going out clubbing and suchlike at the weekend, drinking until they can't stand upright.  \nIf you have doubts about that, just think.  When was the last time you saw an octopus stand upright?  \n\nOf course,  this is just my opinion.  If you want anything else, you could always try this site.  It tells you more than anyone would ever want to know about octopuses. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus  \n\nThough I'm not sure how accurate it is.  It has a picture of a Big Blue Octopus that sure looks pink to me.  \nAnd it doesn't mention rowdy behaviour either.   \n\nHope that helps.
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Ask that giant ape. It is pretty freakin' tall!
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Interesting question, but I think you're putting the cart before the horse. \nI could say that they don't live out of the water because their many specializations make it impossible; you've seen what happens when a whale gets beached. \n\nAnd why not turn the question around? Why not ask\n"If dolphins live in the water, why do they have lungs instead of gills?"\nThe thing is, adaptation is a phenomenon that usually shows us amazing results, such as the entire lifestyle of cetaceans (and they have many specializations for aquatic life). But a specialized or well-adapted animal is not "perfectly" fitted, because of the way evolutionary processes work. \nEvolution and natural selection can only work on the "materials" that are already there; and the lungs of mammals are not something that can be "reverted" to gills; their origin goes way back to remote ancestors of the whales. This irreversibility of _complex_ evolutionary processes is known as Dollo's "law" (and creationists love to misinterpret it). Stephen J. Gould gave a good example with the giant panda's "thumb" (this additional finger arose from one of the bones of the carp (wrist), and the real thumb of pandas is as reduced as in the rest of the Carnivora). \nEven if cetaceans where to evolve back into terrestrial animals, the results would not look like their ancestors, or probably anything that we know.
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here you have a link for a nice map showing their habitat in Northamerica\nhttp://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/managing/fs_elk.html