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6 Reasons to Love Cephalopods
  • Introduction
  • All those arms (tentacles?) for hugging!
  • Three hearts are better than one.
  • They are smart.
  • They help us to better know ourselves.
  • They’re so pretty.
  • Love them now, before they’re gone.
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veined, or coconut, octopus An octopus with outstretched tentacles swims underwater near rising air bubbles, illuminated by sunlight from above. A Caribbean reef squid with a reddish body and white spots swims in clear blue water above a coral reef. octopus common octopus cuttlefish

6 Reasons to Love Cephalopods: References & Edit History

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  • Alison Eldridge
    Alison Eldridge was Managing Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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