Octopus
The octopus is a cephalopod, found in the most diverse seas in the world, noted for the diversity of sizes, shapes, textures and colors. The octopus is an animal, which is found in most Mediterranean recipes, as well as in other latitudes such as Japan, China, USA, etc.
The richness of the Octopus is found, in the different flavors either fish in Galicia, it will have a more seafood flavor and a different texture and color when cooked, being an octopus very appreciated in the world, the difficulty that this Galician octopus has, is the scarcity of it, due to the indiscriminate fishing of it, not allowing the aforementioned animal to grow and expand in the Galician waters.
Octopuses feed when they are smaller than plankton, rising to the surface to be able to feed on it, when they grow they get closer to the seabed, to be able to stock up on other types of fish and molluscs.
Octopuses are animals that take advantage of the dark (they see very well in murky and dark waters) to be able to attack their victims, and taste the foods that are most appealing to them. The octopus is a fairly selective animal with food, it can go without eating but it will not eat anything, it uses its beak to tear prey.
The octopus is an animal that has a large number of legs and arms in total 8, in each leg or arm or tentacles as we call them, they have a large number of neural ramifications, and although they have a single brain, it is as if it had one in each limb.
The octopus is an invertebrate animal, that is to say that it lacks a skeleton, they have a gelatinous cavity where they have the brain, which in comparison to the body, is of a much smaller dimension.
The octopus's natural habitat is the seas and oceans, these mollusks require salt water for their subsistence, you can find them both in cold waters and in warmer waters, they usually take refuge in coral banks where they take advantage , from the orography to be able to take shelter and have easier to search for food.