Octopus feeding and digesting process

The Giant Pacific Octopus

Feeding and digesting process
The giant pacific octopus mosty hunts at night. When it gets dark, it crewls out of its den and searches for prey. It is able to change its color so that its almost invisible between the rocks and coralls. The feeding process depends on what kind of prey the octopus is hunting. If its prey is hard-shelled, then it uses its tongue, which is covered with little teeth, to bore into the shell. If the prey is a large animal, "soft" animal, then the octopus uses its long arms which are covered with suckers, to seize and hold on to it. Then it squeezes the prey into its mouth, where it has a beak, and bites the animal injecting it with a poison, which kills its prey. Octopus may kill a multiple number of prey on an outing. It stuffs the dead prey into its digestive gland. Once the octopus is satiated, it will return back to its den and release a digestive enzyme. After a couple hours the digestion process is over, and the octopus will then expel the hollow skeleton of whatever animal it has just caught. The digestive enzyme breaks down the flesh and insides of the prey so it can suck it up as a liquid. This makes it easier for the octopus to eat larger preys such as sharks, and larger fish. Usual preys are squids, scallops, crabs, and clams.