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Friday Cephalopod: Breeding Swarm!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 4, 2009 10:42 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Michelle R | December 4, 2009 10:55 AM
Now that's what I call a tentacle sex orgy.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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December 4, 2009 10:58 AM
Get a room!
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Strangel
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December 4, 2009 11:01 AM
I like to watch to... but only for a little bit.
Posted by: Strangel
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December 4, 2009 11:03 AM
uh.. I mean "too."
Posted by: Biology Blogger | December 4, 2009 11:05 AM
Those eyes seriously freak me out.
Posted by: bcoppola | December 4, 2009 11:14 AM
Cephalopod porn: another example of atheist depravity!
Hmmm, a new alliterative simile comes to mind: "Slicker than shellacked squid sperm."
I'll stop now.
Posted by: abys | December 4, 2009 11:15 AM
Then along comes a sperm whale....
Posted by: Gabby | December 4, 2009 11:16 AM
There's a time and a place for those kinds of depravity, and it's called college.
Posted by: Frink | December 4, 2009 11:29 AM
I always wondered what people got out of tentacle porn. Now I think I understand.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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December 4, 2009 11:38 AM
I have nasty feeling that it would be in poor taste to make a 'loli' joke ...
Posted by: Newfie
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December 4, 2009 11:40 AM
Hank Snow - Squid Jiggin Grounds
Posted by: madbull
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December 4, 2009 11:47 AM
Hey PZ , uve posted this 1 before :(
Posted by: Steve Reilly
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December 4, 2009 12:06 PM
So is THIS porn, PZ???
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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December 4, 2009 12:35 PM
Am I the only one not titillated by this? Sure, it was an awkward moment for all, but after reading your juvenile reactions I'm more sure than ever that Mama and Papa Brownian made the right decision by explaining when I was eight how a breeding swarm made me.
Of course we're not cephalopods, but if I remember correctly the details were pretty much the same: thousands of lithe bodies squirming against each other, water filled with sperm, and the whole thing ending in a Japanese trawler's purse seine.
Posted by: Neil B | December 4, 2009 12:50 PM
It's near lunch time in my part of the world and all I can see is yummy tasting calamari. :-Þ
Posted by: bbgunn | December 4, 2009 1:03 PM
I'm not familiar with squid genitalia, but that looks a little bit 'oral' to me.
Posted by: bbgunn | December 4, 2009 1:16 PM
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Posted by: Whateverman | December 4, 2009 3:42 PM
Nature does not appear to abhor an orgy...
Posted by: SantaCruzOM - this OM does not imply a Molly :-( | December 4, 2009 5:04 PM
Having endured a relatively lengthly divorce proceeding recently, I may be up for something like this.
Posted by: featheredfrog
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December 4, 2009 5:19 PM
Whaddayaknow: flying squid. This is SO cool! Imagine sailing along, and suddenly catching one of these with your face!
http://tolweb.org/Ommastrephidae/19418
Posted by: Azkyroth
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December 4, 2009 6:42 PM
No doubt Incred U will be along to chastise us for contributing to the exploitation of the female squid in this picture.
Posted by: eddie
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December 4, 2009 10:00 PM
Wouldn't it be cool if we primates could signal our excitement, etc, by changing colour.
*blushes*
Well, we can a bit, but proper chromatophore skin would be amazing.
Posted by: Blair | December 5, 2009 3:07 AM
If only they didn't taste so good.
Sorry PZ
Posted by: Samantha Vimes | December 5, 2009 7:02 AM
Oh, I can recognize the opalescent squid on sight! They appear in a whole bunch of documentaries.
Posted by: blotonthelandscape | December 5, 2009 7:34 AM
Check out the most recent Life documentary on BBC IPlayer (might be UK only) for scenes like this and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4rl4/Life_Creatures_of_the_Deep/