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How long is Giant Pacific octopus?
5 mlength
Arm span of a giant Pacific octopus reaches about 5 m.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Giant Pacific octopus.
- 0.91× a giraffe (5.5 m)
- 1.11× the family car (4.5 m)
- 0.42× a city bus (12 m)
- 2.46× the front door (2.03 m)
How to picture 5 m
Start from something you can see right now. Giant Pacific octopus is about 0.91× giraffe. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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