Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis male (top), Benthoctopus female (bottom)
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Friday Cephalopod: Bestiality!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: June 19, 2009 10:47 AM, by PZ Myers
Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis male (top), Benthoctopus female (bottom)
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Posted by: Postman | June 19, 2009 10:55 AM
That's a nasty tumor that little white octopus has got. he should have it removed.
Posted by: Ranson | June 19, 2009 11:01 AM
So, this is what the religious right is afraid will happen if we let cephalopods gay-marry, right?
Posted by: marcus
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June 19, 2009 11:01 AM
Now that is an impressive specimen! Reminds me of my younger years.
Posted by: Rorschach | June 19, 2009 11:05 AM
I see a blue elephant with a hat,is that normal?
Posted by: mikespeir | June 19, 2009 11:10 AM
Okay, so why can't the female be on top, huh?
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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June 19, 2009 11:13 AM
Sorta. They tend to make slippery slope arguments that culminate in "Well, why don't we just let gays cephalopod-marry then?"
That's about when it's time to stop talking and time to start inking.
Posted by: Shaden Freud | June 19, 2009 11:27 AM
Take us home, Freddy!
Posted by: Nangleator | June 19, 2009 11:39 AM
That's not a tumor, Postman, that's just a hemorrhoid.
Geez, first it's giant sperm that stretches the lady all out, now this. Friday is perv day.
Posted by: Matt Dowling | June 19, 2009 11:46 AM
There are days when I am soo glad I'm Homo sapiens sapiens...
Posted by: Matt Dowling | June 19, 2009 11:48 AM
There are days when I am sooo glad I'm Homo sapiens sapiens...
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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June 19, 2009 11:55 AM
Another average Saturday night.
Posted by: Ponder | June 19, 2009 12:20 PM
Now that is just sick and wrong. Dammit, why can't you stick to Japanese schoolgirls like normal tentacled beasts?
Posted by: ThirtyFiveUp | June 19, 2009 12:40 PM
Matt Dowling
Sapiens means wise. But sapiens sapiens must mean not wise.
Ba Da Boom
Posted by: jose | June 19, 2009 12:43 PM
Interspecies erotica, fucko.
Posted by: Matt Dowling | June 19, 2009 12:45 PM
There are days when I am sooo glad I'm Homo sapiens sapiens...
Posted by: Homosapienssapienssapienssapiens | June 19, 2009 1:05 PM
There are days when Matt Dowling is sooo glad he's Homo sapiens sapiens. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Posted by: James F | June 19, 2009 1:23 PM
And you're Homo sapien[sic], too.
Posted by: Mena | June 19, 2009 1:32 PM
I wonder if she's thinking those words of the immortal Foghorn Leghorn: "Go, I say go away, boy, ya bother me!"
Posted by: not a gator | June 19, 2009 1:33 PM
Hurrr... So where are the creationistas today? Shouldn't they be posting long missives about how species don't exist, only 'kinds', that the blue one isn't another kind, just fat, and, furthermore, these cephalopods aren't fucking, they're comforting each other in a non-sexual way?
Posted by: natural cynic | June 19, 2009 2:13 PM
Uh, pedant point: bestiality is sex between humans and animals.
Like this painting of PZ and the Trophy Wife. btw: which one of the Trophy Kids is glomming onto mommy's face?
Posted by: natural cynic | June 19, 2009 2:18 PM
An afterthought: wouldn't this make a fine tattoo? PZ, are you game enough?
Posted by: Richard Brian Penn | June 19, 2009 3:21 PM
This makes me want to read my favorite Dr. Seuss book, "Horton Hears a Who"
Posted by: gwyllion
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June 19, 2009 3:33 PM
woooooooooo doggieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Posted by: gwyllion
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June 19, 2009 3:36 PM
woooooooooo doggieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Posted by: MhorRioghain | June 19, 2009 4:13 PM
So you think you can dance? ......... What do you say Nigel, Mary, Lil C?
Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip
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June 19, 2009 4:35 PM
Those fursuits are remarkable.
Posted by: Epinephrine | June 19, 2009 4:49 PM
There are days when I am sooo glad I don't
doubletriple post.Posted by: Sili
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June 19, 2009 5:57 PM
Meh - it's not crocoduck.
Posted by: Joel | June 19, 2009 9:47 PM
God will surely smite you for spreading this smut ;)
Posted by: Joel | June 19, 2009 9:55 PM
God will surely smite you for spreading this smut ;)
Posted by: Truckloadbear | June 19, 2009 10:27 PM
Ya know, I've always found it puzzling that in many species the female is so much larger thatn the male. Except for primates, humans especially so.
Strange.
Posted by: Truckloadbear | June 19, 2009 10:29 PM
Ya know, I've always found it puzzling that in many species the female is so much larger thatn the male. Except for primates, humans especially so.
Strange.
Posted by: Joe | June 19, 2009 11:13 PM
Ya know, I've always found it puzzling that in many species the female is so much larger thatn the male. Except for primates, humans especially so.
There are lots of critters where the male is larger (cats, buffalo, goats, horses, etc).
Generally, where there is a size difference between the sexes, it indicates that the larger gender is in competition for the smaller gender, and that the larger will normally have multiple mates (the larger the difference, the more mates).
Posted by: natural cynic | June 20, 2009 12:40 AM
Add to the list of larger males: pinnepeds. There is a huge difference in sea elephants.
Posted by: astrounit | June 20, 2009 9:09 AM
Is it just me or does it look like the female as her beak open and deployed ready to bite off a tentacle?
Man, that's one of those things that's hard to look at.
Posted by: Samantha Vimes | June 20, 2009 5:21 PM
Given the number of Discworld fans here, I'm surprised no one has likened this to Errol the swamp dragon courting the Draco Nobilis.
Some little guys have big ambitions.
Posted by: elece
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June 22, 2009 9:32 AM
Is this kind of sex between female octopus and a Vulcan octopus viable? If so, the son must be named Spocktopus.