The Violent, Passionate Life Of An Octopus

WharfRat · Apr 2, 2008

Fascinating....

The Sea Creature's Complex Mating Rituals Can Involve Jealousy, Deception, Death

(CBS/AP) Marine biologists studying wild octopuses have found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a-lifetime sex.

The new study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia found that wild octopuses are far from the shy, unromantic loners their captive brethren appear to be.

The scientists watched the Abdopus aculeatus octopus, which are the size of an orange, for several weeks and published their findings recently in the journal Marine Biology.

They witnessed picky, macho males carefully select a mate, then guard their newly domesticated digs so jealously that they would occasionally use their 8-to-10-inch tentacles to strangle a romantic rival to death.
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miami#1 · Apr 2, 2008

very nice

unluckyluciano · Apr 2, 2008

Just to add on to the thread of the humanity we find in animals:

Showoffs. Amazon River dolphins toss and thrash clumps of leaves, sticks, and even rocks. They're not just playing: Researchers say it's the first example of an aquatic mammal using props for sexual display. In more than 6000 dolphin sightings, observers spied 221 instances of prop-carrying, mostly by adult males. The behavior was most common near adult females and was especially frequent in July, 14 months before most females bear their young, the team reports online 25 March in Biology Letters. (No one knows exactly how long Amazon dolphins gestate their young, but other dolphins and small whales take 11 to 15 months.) (Photo: Jan Carroll/Alamy)
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