Another consequence of living in the depths of the ocean is that food is hard to find so dumbo octopuses are no picky eaters. They eat copepods, isopods, amphipods, small crustaceans and worms that crawl across the ocean floor.
How do they eat? Using their ear-like fins, they hover along the ocean floor and when they find food, they pounce on it, covering it with their umbrella-like arms. Now, unlike other octopuses, dumbo octopuses do not have a radula, which is like a hard tooth-covered tongue in the octopus’ beak, so it cannot tear its food apart. Instead, the dumbo octopus swallows its prey whole.