Gabe Bell to tumblr@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoLife is much better down where it's wetterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down121
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minus-square@BossDj@lemm.eelinkfedilink21•edit-28 months agoIt’s real! More like, “we’re not really sure what we saw” but it was believed to be two different species of male octopus mating. Not much online because it happened in 1994. Found a New York Times article about it, but this one was a more fun read: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14419481-500-torrid-sex-scenes-puzzle-octopus-experts/ Best part: The smaller octopus was rubbing its sexual arm along its partner’s back. Then, while Voight watched, the white octopus reached under the larger male and inserted the tip of its arm into the body cavity. while Voight watched
minus-square@DahGangalanglink4•8 months agoCame here to say basically what you said, but I didn’t notice the articles all seem to be from the 90’s. Have these octopuses not been seen mating since?
It’s real! More like, “we’re not really sure what we saw” but it was believed to be two different species of male octopus mating.
Not much online because it happened in 1994. Found a New York Times article about it, but this one was a more fun read:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14419481-500-torrid-sex-scenes-puzzle-octopus-experts/
Best part:
while Voight watched
Came here to say basically what you said, but I didn’t notice the articles all seem to be from the 90’s.
Have these octopuses not been seen mating since?