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Option 3 : Octopus
The correct answer is Octopus.
- Octopuses have three hearts, a systemic heart that circulates blood around the body and two branchial hearts that pump it through each of the two gills.
- The systemic heart is inactive when the animal is swimming and thus it tires quickly and prefers to crawl.
- Octopus blood contains the copper-rich protein hemocyanin to transport oxygen.
- This makes the blood very viscous and it requires considerable pressure to pump it around the body.
- Octopus's blood pressures can exceed 75 mmHg.
- All octopuses are venomous, evidence shows that the animal does not make the venom by itself, but are produced by symbiotic bacteria instead.
- The blue-ringed octopus is the most venomous to humans and they are fatal.
- These sea or marine creatures lack the skeletal system and are grouped into:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Genus: Octopus
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