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New Scientist on MSNMale octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eatenSome male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...
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 ...
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNSex and survival: Male octopuses inject venom into females to avoid being eaten aliveMale blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten, temporarily paralyzing their partners ...
The blue ring octopus, though small, carries a lethal venom 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide, capable of paralyzing and ...
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Discover Magazine on MSNTo Avoid Becoming a Meal, These Male Octopuses Sedate Their MatesLearn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses — a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.
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IFLScience on MSNToxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating ThemMale blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...
Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...
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.
But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating ... discovering that the males had larger venom glands than females despite their smaller size. Next up, he plans to investigate whether ...
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