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The Blue Ringed Octopus

The Blue Ringed Octopus. Hapalochlaena maculosa or Hapalochlaena lunulata By Jack Shaffer. What do you know about their Habitat and Diet?. Live in the Great Barrier Reef or the coast of Australia (depending on the type of Octopus). They live on fish, invertebrates, and other small octopuses.

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The Blue Ringed Octopus

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  1. The Blue Ringed Octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa or Hapalochlaena lunulata By Jack Shaffer

  2. What do you know about their Habitat and Diet? • Live in the Great Barrier Reef or the coast of Australia (depending on the type of Octopus). • They live on fish, invertebrates, and other small octopuses.

  3. What makes them so scary? Are they endangered? • It’s there poison. It is made to kill prey, but not people. • They are not endangered, but they can kill about 20 to 30 people in minutes!!! • It may look harmless, but DO NOT be deceived by it’s looks.

  4. How Do I know I’ve been bitten? "Great Barrier Reef: Blue Ringed Octopus." Blue Ringed Octopus. Dangers on the Great Barrier Reef. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. • Nausea • Hazy Vision • Loss of sense of touch, speech and the ability to swallow • Within 3 minutes, paralysis sets in and your body goes into respiratory arrest • Poison is contained in the saliva, from two glands each as big as its brain

  5. Although there is no antedote for blue ringed octopus sting, we can still take the toxins of the sting out of the human body.

  6. The Types of Blue Ringed Octopus • The Greater Blue Ringed Octopus • Southern Blue Ringed Octopus • Blue Lined Octopus

  7. It’s another healthy deadly golf-ball-sized blue ringed octopus baby!! • They involve having a male and the female. • They have babies the size of golf-balls. • When the female lays the eggs, she has a few weeks left to live. • When the male has done his part, he has 3-6 months to live.

  8. Video (Optional) http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/SCL01_015 http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/videos/blue-ring-octopus/ The Latin Names Kingdom: Animilia Family: Octopodidae Order: Octopoda Class: Cephalopoda Phylum: Mollusca

  9. Work cited • "Animal Guide: Blue-Ringed Octopus." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. • "Great Barrier Reef: Blue Ringed Octopus." Blue Ringed Octopus. Dangers on the Great Barrier Reef. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. • "Species: Blue-Ringed Octopus." : Species: Blue- Ringed Octopus. Blogger, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. <http://everythingoctopus.blogspot.com/2008/12/sp ecies-blue-ringed-octopus.html>. • "Blue-ringed Octopuses, HapalochlaenaMaculosa." At MarineBio.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. • "Blue Ringed Octopus Biology." - The Cephalopod Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. <http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/bluering4.php>. • Cousteau, Fabien. Ocean. 1st ed. New York: DK Pub., 2008. Print. • Lunis, Natalie. Blue-ringed Octopus: Small but Deadly. New York, NY: Bearport Pub., 2010. Print.

  10. Thank You!!

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