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The aquarium staff followed his little suction cup ____________ to discover that Inky had escaped through a small gap at the top of his tank. NEW ZEALAND – One night in April, Inky the octopus slipped silently out of his ________ at New Zealand’s National Aquarium.
Once out of the tank, Inky _______ across the floor to a six-inch-wide drain. He squeezed his
football-sized body through the drain,
which took him into the Pacific Ocean. And, nobody has _______ Inky since that night!
An octopus has a ________ body and can squeeze its body into very small spaces. In the sea, they like to live ________ in small caves, spaces under rocks, or even in pottery that falls from passing __________. Inky was added to the aquarium in 2014. He had been injured when he was caught in a crayfish pot. Octopuses are very ________________ to keep in aquariums. If they get bored, they start to take things ___________. In 2009, an octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California took apart a valve and caused a flood. Another octopus took apart a little robot ___________________ that was in its tank.
An octopus has eight arms … or are they legs? Scientists think two of the limbs act as legs, and the rest act like arms. These limbs are called tentacles . Each tentacle has two rows of suckers that sense taste. If an octopus loses a tentacle, it can grow a new one! Eight Arms or Legs?
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