Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...
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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Mimicry: The Orchid and the Bee:
Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths ... For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of the Thynnid wasp, which involves a female wasp waiting ...
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Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
When researchers looked closely at the females after mating ... so a person handling the animal may not even feel the attack take place, according to the Australian Museum.
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This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
(CNN) — Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating ... an animal neurobiologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, told CNN on ...