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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: February 2, 2007 10:21 AM, by PZ Myers
May your weekend be as fun as theirs.
Well, more fun, actually…these squid have a frenzied spawning, and then die. Don't go quite that far.
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Much like most of H. sapiens, actually.
Posted by: Warren | February 2, 2007 11:28 AM
These innocent sea creatures have a message for all of us.
Make love not war.
Posted by: Sonja | February 2, 2007 1:12 PM
You sick bastards. Get your squid porn off my computer screen. As for the squids... those kinky bastards make baby Jesus cry.
Posted by: Tatarize | February 2, 2007 1:38 PM
The brief Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Reef_Squid) makes it all seem more romantic.
Posted by: fred | February 2, 2007 2:46 PM
these squid have a frenzied spawning, and then die. Don't go quite that far.
Well...it...would be a good way to go...
Posted by: JackGoff | February 2, 2007 9:54 PM
How about just a frantic spawning, and then a short coma?
Posted by: Barry | February 2, 2007 10:04 PM
then a short coma
Nah. I'd prefer the one moment of ecstasy and then nothingness forever.
Posted by: JackGoff | February 2, 2007 11:13 PM
*sigh* no threesomes this weekend, I fear.
Posted by: Azkyroth | February 2, 2007 11:53 PM
YES 'threesome' this weekend, but alas, hitting balls. Not too romantic.
Posted by: Selenicereus | February 3, 2007 12:49 AM
Thanks for the hot tip on teh Wikipedia, Fred:
The male then attaches a sticky packet of sperm to the female's body. As he reaches out with the sperm packet, he displays a pulsating pattern. The female places the packet in her seminal receptacle, finds appropriate places to lay her eggs in small clusters, and then dies.
I am so turned on right now.
Posted by: Oaktown Girl | February 3, 2007 2:44 AM
As if that wasn't enough, S E E Quine on Scientists, Wackmobiles, and Spurious Brainchildren posted a link to the Scary Solstice Cthulu song.
Posted by: Monado | February 3, 2007 1:30 PM