Friday Cephalopod: Mating swarm!
Category: Organisms
Posted on: May 26, 2006 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Octopus kaurna
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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pr0n!
Now that's a tangled bank.
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May 26, 2006 6:45 AM
I should not read blogs when I am tired. I read that label as Octopus kama and my brain added, all by itself, sutra.
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May 26, 2006 7:44 AM
I'd hate to have to sort out the paternity suit from that one.
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May 26, 2006 7:49 AM
So if you're one of the males, how do you know you've delivered the packet? You have to know so you can get a "high tentacle" from your homies.
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May 26, 2006 8:55 AM