Octopuses

The statistics

Octopus

Class: Cephalopod

Diet: Carnivore

Average life span in the wild: Six months to five years

Weight: 0.1 to 200 kilograms

Size: Up to nine metres

Octopuses are sort of like the superheroes of the animal kingdom, with so many amazing abilities and adaptations that they begin to look greedy. They can solve mazes, open screw-top jars and use tools. They can walk, they can swim and they can even propel themselves at high speed. They can change colour, imitate other animals, squirt ink, inject poison and jettison their own arms. When you can do all