AnimalsCoral Reef
Octopus Fun facts for kids
Octopus vulgaris
The octopus lives among rocks in the Mediterranean and Atlantic and eats crabs, shrimp and small fish.
- Where it lives
- among rocks in the Mediterranean and Atlantic
- What it eats
- crabs, shrimp and small fish
- How big it is
- stretched out, longer than a cat
Fun facts about the octopus
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
An octopus has three hearts, and one of them stops beating when it swims!
Its only hard part is a beak like a parrot's, so it can squeeze through a hole the size of a coin!
Most of its thinking cells are in its eight arms, so people say an octopus has nine brains!
An octopus named Inky escaped from an aquarium by squeezing down a drainpipe all the way to the sea!
Its blood is blue, not red like ours!
It can change colour in less than a second, even though it probably cannot see colours itself!
It can taste things just by touching them with its suckers!
Octopuses can unscrew jar lids and even recognise the people who look after them!
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live in the sea and hide in a cosy den among the rocks.
I have no bones at all, so I can squeeze through a hole the size of a coin.
I can change my colour in less than a second.
I have three hearts, and my blood is blue.
I have eight long arms covered in suckers.
Sammy might be thinking of an octopus.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the octopus in the Coral Reef adventure.
Play the Coral ReefComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
