This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
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What’s Odd About That Octopus? It’s Mating Beak to Beak.
In most octopus species it’s customary after sex ... they mate in a position where he’s as far from her mouth as possible, and when they’re done, the male runs away,” says marine biologist ...
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Dumbo octopus: The murky world of the deepest octopus species
The dumbo octopus is thought to use the hair-like cirri on its arms to waft food towards its mouth. This limits what the Dumbo octopus can eat, with them only consuming organisms up to 1-2 millimetres ...
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Ban on Algarve octopus fishing
The ban on catching octopus also covers recreational fishing throughout the geographical area defined in the ordinance, says ...