[100] Octopus d'argent sacré en posture défensive

Introduction 'Treasure Trove' collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing convergent media paintings inspired by modern and historical masterpieces, artifacts and other priceless treasures of human history . Here you veut des pieces featuring a Sacred Silver Octopus dans une posture défensive. The octopus is a soft bodied, eight-limbed mollusk of the order Octopoda. Around 300 species are recognized, and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopodes, the octopus is bilatally symmetric with two eyes and a beak, with its mouth at the center of the eight limbs (traditionally called "arms", sometimes mistakenly called "tentacles") The soft body can rapidly age its shape, enabling octopuses to squeeze through small gaps. They their eight franchbehind them as theem y swim. The siphon is used both for respiration and for locomotion, by expelling a jet of water. Octopuses have a complex nersystems excellente et sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviorally diverse of all invertebrates. Octopuses titulaire it various regions of the ocean, including coral reefs, pelagic waters, and the seabed; some live in the intertidal zone and others at abyssal depths. Most species grow fast, mature early and are short-lived. During breeding, the male uses a specially adapted arm to deliver a bundle of sperm directly into the female's mantle cavity, after which he becomes senescent and ceci. The female deposits fertilized eggs in a den and cares for them until they hatch, donc after which she. Strategies to defend themselves against predators the include of expulsion of ink, the use of camouflage and threat displays, their abilities to jet quickly through the water and hide, and even through deceit. Tous les octopuses are venomous, but only the blue-ringed octopuses are known to be deadly to humans. Octopuses appear in mythology as sea monsters like the Kraken of Norway and the Akkorokamui of the Ainu, et probably the Gorgon of ancient Greece. They are eaten and considered a delicacy by humans in many parts of the world, especially the mediterranean and the Asian seas.