Male octopus injects female with venom

Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten
Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms
Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the sea deed is done.
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, according to a new study.
Sex and survival: Male octopuses inject venom into females to avoid being eaten alive
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners, a new study has found. The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is a small yet highly poisonous cephalopod commonly found in shallow reefs and tide pools.
Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating Them
Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the usual reasons of defense against predators and subduing prey. Killing the females would be counterproductive,
Male blue-lined octopuses immobilize partners with venom before mating
Male blue-lined octopuses immobilize partners with venom before mating In the animal world, survival often involves strategies that are as ingenious as they are unexpected. Female blue-lined octopuses are much larger than the males.
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.
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.
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Revealed: the toxic sex life of the blue-lined octopus
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.
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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.
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Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
and packs a potentially deadly punch when the octopus takes a bite. Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against enemies ...