Assertion: octopus | /r/CapableOf | catch their prey
Facets:
value: by arms
type: MANNER
value: with its tentacles
type: MANNER
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: easily
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: So they can easily catch their prey as well as escape from the predators.
text: Octopuses grab their prey and pierce through their shell to inject a paralysing venom.
text: Each of the eight arms or tentacles of an octopus generally has over 200 suction cup like protuberances that it uses to help it grab onto its prey.
text: The octopus grabs and restrains prey using its tentacles and suckers, then bites it and tears away flesh with its tough beak.
text: These suction cups allow the octopus to not only grasp and hold items, such as prey, but to also taste and smell through chemoreceptors located in each one.
text: These suction cups allow the octopus to not only grasp and hold items, such as prey, but to also taste and smell through chemoreceptors located in each one.
text: They do the same when attacking prey or when they are defending themselves against predators.
text: These suckers are not only used to help the octopus stick onto slick ocean rocks or capture prey, but they also can taste.
text: Grabbing the prey with its tentacles, the octopus bites it with its beak.
text: Sometimes the octopus catches more prey than it can eat, and the den is often surrounded by a midden of dead and uneaten food items.
text: As mentioned in the paragraph above, the octopus uses various means to consume and capture its prey.
text: The octopus, while swimming, captures the prey and envelops it in the web of its tentacles/arm skin, it’s like the octopus’ natural net.
text: Octopuses are also characterized by their devious hunting strategies as they ambush their prey too close enough range so as to pounce on them.
text: Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus subtly taps its prey on the shoulder and startles it into its arms.
text: Octopus now because of its flexible body can capture their prey and evade their predators much easily.
text: Octopus catch their prey with their arms and kill it by injecting venom into their body that paralyzes them.
text: Octopi catch their prey by arms and kill it by injecting venom into their body.
text: Then, the octopuses reach underneath, grabbing their prey, and guide it towards their mouths.
text: These arms, along with the suction cups, help the octopus grab onto its prey, or the animals it eats.