About octopus

A bout octopus Octopuses and their kind stand apart from other invertebrates, having evolved with larger nervous systems and greater complexity. Most of the neurons of an octopus are found in its arms and not the head. Octopus is a part of a class of marine mollusks called cephalopods. There are around 300 species are known at present. They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans 20 feet from arm tip to arm tip. These animals evolved large nervous systems, including their brains. A common octopus has about 500 million neurons in its body. That is a lot by almost any standard. Human beings have many more something nearing 100 billion but the octopus is in the same range as various mammals, close to the range of dogs, and cephalopods have much larger nervous systems than all other invertebrates. the size of the brain as a fraction of the size of the body tells us how much an animal is “investing” in its brain. Octo...