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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To Avoid Becoming a Meal, These Male Octopuses Sedate Their Mates
Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses - a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.
Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after ...
Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...
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Male octopus poisons its mate to avoid becoming post-sex snack
While the bite from a venomous blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata ... While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain ...
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This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Chung added that eating their partner helps female octopuses ... describing the males as a “final snack.” But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating arms that allow them ...