Do suckers have any direct ability to digest food or deliver it to the stomach or is there other ingestion than food taken by mouth?
I have seen posts that relagate the sense of "smell" and "taste" to the suckers. I know from observation octopuses can move food along the suckers and I have seen Trapper put the end of her arm into her mouth when she was eating but at other times is appears that the octopuses are feeding directly through their arms (they may be simply moving the small food toward the mouth and I can't see the passage).
I have seen posts that relagate the sense of "smell" and "taste" to the suckers. I know from observation octopuses can move food along the suckers and I have seen Trapper put the end of her arm into her mouth when she was eating but at other times is appears that the octopuses are feeding directly through their arms (they may be simply moving the small food toward the mouth and I can't see the passage).