Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, ...
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, ...
Are octopuses smarter than pigs? Should we eat them? Oregon bill to ban octopus farms stirs controversy
The bill has drawn enormous public support but also raised fundamental questions about the intelligence of all the animals Oregonians eat.
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Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating Them
Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
Researchers in Australia recently learned that male blue-ringed octopuses also use TTX during reproduction. Females are much larger than males, and after copulation, females often eat their partners.
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Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
Along the rocky shores of eastern Australia, a small brown octopus is unassuming as it blends in with its surroundings. When the octopus is scared or hungry, however, it becomes one of the most ...
Readers respond: Legislators have bigger concerns than octopus
Don’t our legislators have greater concerns than whether octopuses are intelligent or edible? (“ Are octopuses smarter than ...