• Question: If an octopus has 8 arms, how many hearts does it have?

    Asked by pingupace to Janet on 14 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 14 Mar 2013:


      It has three hearts…but not because of its 8 legs…one pumps its blood around its body, the other two pump blood to each of its gills, which are equivalent to our lungs and where it gets its oxygen from.

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