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An octopus has three hearts. Two of them push blood through the gills. The third carries that blood to the rest of the body, and it slows when the animal swims. The blood is blue, because it uses copper, not iron, to move oxygen.

Three hearts, and the main one eases off while the octopus swims.

octopus · Encyclopaedia Britannica · Year unknown · Factapp

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