Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...
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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These Male Octopuses Paralyze And Poison Females Before Mating To Avoid Being Eaten
To humans, the bite of a blue-line octopus can be life-threatening, but within its own species, it’s just a regular […] ...
Octopuses Use Venom for Safe Sex, Biologists Reveal
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...
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 ...
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This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Sexual cannibalism is common in cephalopods such as octopuses, as well as in other animals such as spiders and mantises, he said. Chung added that eating their partner helps female octopuses to ...
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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 ...