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, ...
New York Post16 天
Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after ...
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses ...
CNN17 天
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 ...
Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
Blue-lined octopuses are from a group of venomous octopuses that look plain in color until they are threatened, at which time their bodies flare with electric blue lines to ward off potential threats, ...
‘I am really scared’ – Former Man Utd star Jesse Lingard filmed eating LIVE octopus ...
JESSE LINGARD ate a live octopus while filming his latest YouTube video. The former Manchester United star has embraced life ...
The State19 天
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 ...
The Independent19 天
Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find
The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its deadly tetrodotoxin venom into the females to immobilise them during copulation, say researchers at the University of Queensland.