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tclambert

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2. Yeah, but the way sex works with Octopi is just sad.

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:07 PM

Nov 2014

The male gets to mate once, then he dies. The female then spends her remaining days caring for the eggs, and usually starves to death.

We definitely got the better of that deal.

Not sure exactly how it works with squids, though Wikipedia says, "deep water squid have the greatest known penis length relative to body size of all mobile animals, second in the entire animal kingdom only to certain sessile barnacles." (And now I have a case of sessile barnacle envy.)

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