Hi everyone, I'm Candace Reid-Rose! I'm an aquarist here at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
If you're here, you're probably
wondering, how does an octopus breathe?
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Octopuses and most cephalopods kind of
have this two-part body, the mantle being
the head region. That's where all their
organs are going to be stored.
The siphon, you can see it lives right by their mantle.
When they bring water into their bodies, they're gonna bring water into their mantle where they have their gills.
They're gonna flush water over their gills so they can breathe and get the oxygen
from the water. And then the water
is gonna come out through the siphon.
And that's also how they expel their
waste.
That's how an octopus breathes!
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