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The Internet has wondrous amounts of information; some of it is even true. But this page, for example, gets it badly wrong:
It's eHow's answer to the question "How does an octopus breathe?"--and here's the first paragraph:
There are six significant problems here, by my count, not counting the misspelling of "mantel."
It's eHow's answer to the question "How does an octopus breathe?"--and here's the first paragraph:
The Mouth of an Octopus
The beak-like mouth of an octopus is located on the mantel cavity at the back of the bulbous head of the octopus, surrounded by the eight legs. The mouth is the entryway to the mantle cavity which has gills inside of it. The octopus uses these gills to breathe. Water is brought into the octopus mouth and is then passed through the gills back into the body of water. As the water is pushed over the surface of the gills, oxygen is picked up by the blood in the capillaries of the gills.
There are six significant problems here, by my count, not counting the misspelling of "mantel."