[News]: Blanket Octopus Reproduction

[tonmo]

Another story regarding octopus reproduction, this time regarding the death of the blanket male after sex, and the remarkable size difference between it and the female. Read about it on Australia's SMH.com:

Male octopus is a sucker for big girls who kill him after sex

 

[krin]

Beat me to it


I was trying to load this up on Friday and couldn't do it from home!

The Full article is at www.rsnz.govt.nz/publish/nzjmfr/2002/061.php

Ref:

Norman, M.D. ...et al.
"First encounter with a live male blanket octopus : the world's most sexually size-dimorphic large animal:
V. 36, p. 733-736, 2002.

KRin

 

[krin]

Newspaper piece

There was also a piece in the Age Newspaper (Melbourne Australia)

can be viewed at
www.theage.com.au/news/national/index.html

and just look down the page for the heading
"Love that costs father an arm and a leg or two"

KRin

 

[nanoteuthis]

Hmm, reminds me of a joke I heard from some female stand-up comic:

My boyfriend and I went to the zoo, where we saw
an alpha male gorilla being groomed and fussed over
by his harem of females.

"See?" said my boyfriend, "That's nature's way, the
same way it's supposed to be with humans."

So I took him to the black widow exhibit....


Me

 

[tonmo]

And more coverage:

Bizarre 'gunslinger' octopus caught for first time

 

[tonmo]

...and yet even more coverage:

National Geographic: "Walnut-Size" Male Octopus Seen Alive for First Time