How does an octopus have babies?
The snail lays her eggs and leaves them to fend for themselves. The clam and the oyster strew their eggs into the water to take their chances. These animals and most other mollusks are very careless parents who do nothing to tend their eggs or to protect and teach their young. The octopus is a member of the animal phylum mollusca which includes the snails and clams, the slugs and oysters. Most of the mollusks lay their eggs and forget them, leaving them to take their chances in the hungry world around them. As a result, all but a few of the eggs and young fail to survive. They become food for the hosts of hungry hunters just waiting to devour them. In order to keep going, the mollusk animals must produce large numbers of eggs so that a few may survive to hand on life to the next generation. The octopus is a mollusk without a protective outer skelton like those worn by snails and oysters. It is also unlike its mollusk relatives in other ways. For one thing, mrs. Octopus is a mother with
