Аннотация:The eight flexible arms of an octopus’s body allow it to perform a wide range of actions. Octopi use their arms to perform several types of movement, such as walking, crawling, and swimming. They use different objects, such as empty coconut and clam shells, to create shelters, and they have the amazing ability to change their skin color and body texture to camouflage themselves in their environments. Simultaneously, the flexible body structure of the octopus creates a problem for its motor control system, because it needs to control and manage a nearly infinite number of body states. In this article, we will the interesting mechanisms octopi have developed to allow control over their unique bodies.
