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Male blue-lined octopuses immobilize partners with venom before mating
Male blue-lined octopuses immobilize partners with venom before mating In the animal world, survival often involves strategies that are as ingenious as they are unexpected. Female blue-lined octopuses ...
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What’s Odd About That Octopus? It’s Mating Beak to Beak.
Some three decades later Ross and Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, have bred and studied that elusive cephalopod, the larger Pacific striped octopus (LPSO). They’ve ...
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Larger Pacific Striped Octopus Sucker Alignment (IMAGE)
A male and female align suckers during mating. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...
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Mysterious Octopus Pranks Its Prey
Rather than pouncing on its prey, the larger Pacific striped octopus extends a tentacle and taps its victim, startling it into the octopus's deadly embrace. (Video courtesy Roy Caldwell ...