Special October Sale! 15% Off Octopus, Halloween, or Skeleton and Skull Categories!! Woo Hoo!!

Dancing Plastic Skeleton at Tapir and Friends

We are having a special sale this month. It's making everyone so happy that even the skeletons are dancing for joy. This month, you will receive an automatic 15% discount when you buy anything from our Octopus, Halloween, or Skeleton and Skull categories. Pop on over to the store and save on fun and educational plastic animals, stuffed animals, animal keychains, pins, and more!

This blog is sponsored by Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

Brown Plastic Octopus

Let's hear it for the OCTOPUS! Give him a hand...and a hand...and a hand...

Our Plastic Octopus

This octopus is purple-brown in color and has a bright yellow underside with bumps that represent its suction feet. It is made of tough, flexible plastic. Use for sea-life dioramas, school projects, toys, novelties, animal collections, party favors and more. Be sure to look over our other octopus toys and gifts.

About Octopi

Octopi are cephalopods that can be found in rocky areas especially among coral reefs in the oceans throughout the world. The octopus has 8 arms which trail behind it when it swims. It is considered to be the most intelligent animal of all invertabrates. It emits a cloud of inky substance as a defense against predators as well as possessing a venomous bite. Most octopuses have a short life span of no longer than six months.

This blog is sponsored by Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

Octopus heaven?

It is probably best that this photo is somewhat out of focus. It shows a heap of octopi in a market in Zanzibar ready for sale.  Although shopping for seafood is often a smelly chaotic experience in such places, it also evokes sympathy for all the copious amounts of beautiful dead sealife that have fallen to the snares of wily fisherman.

At Tapir and Friends Animal Store we embrace the sanctity of life and deplore overfishing. That isn't to say that we wouldn't consider  eating an occasional  plate of calimari. These are difficult times and to encourage eating only that which can be sustained through farming and regulated harvesting, is wonderful if you are not from a third world country where people must do anything to sustain themselves.

On a brighter note, Tapir and Friends Animal Store has a large selection of inedible plastic aquatic creatures for sale. Our museum-quality plastic octopi and soft play latex octopi will absolutely tantalize your senses and serve a useful purpose in school science projects to instruct those around you about the unique qualities of these amazing animals.

Posted by Lee

                                                           This blog is sponsored by Tapir and Friends Animal Store.