Friday Cephalopod: In flagrante

I swear, half the photos I have of cuttlefish are of two or three or four animals getting it on.

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Sepia pharaonis

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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Sepia pharaonis Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Sepia pharaonis Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Sepia pharaonis, male on the left, female on the right Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Since Friday's cephalopod was a repeat (sorry, it's such a lovely picture that it caught my eye again), here's another to compensate. Sepia pharaonis Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

Is it trying to immitate a lion fish?

By Gyeong Hwa Pak… (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

And I thought I was the only one who liked trashy leopard-print outfits on my partner during make sexy-time.

By Swampfoot (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

You must see 'Oceans.' There are such great shots of cuttlefish and other Cephalopods. And blue whales, and humpback whales, and...well you get the picture.

alf the photos I have of cuttlefish are of two or three or four animals getting it on

Funny. That's not altogether unlike my art collection.

By Sili, The Unkn… (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

With those two lights behind it---it looks a bit like the FSM.

By Kevin Burkhoff (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

It's sort of good that they aren't ashamed of getting it on... if they did it too less often there wouldn't be any animals. Or any us.

Then again, maybe they ARE ashamed of it, but they do it anyway. In which case maybe they're Catholic :p

By MoonShark (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

But does that say something about cuttlefish, or you?

When I was quite young I thought they were called cuddlefish.

I lived with a parakeet that was older than I (He died when I was 12) and thought for years that he had a cuddlefish bone in his cage. I did know that they were cephalopods and not fish at the time: I just messed up the name.

I have started keeping track of the species I have caught in flagrante delicto.

So far I've got elephants (although it was masturbating), pygmy falcons, and flamingoes.

By Katharine (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

Also, speaking of cephalopods, I have a burgeoning side interest in cephalopod intelligence, particularly as regards neurogenetics.

I have no idea who is researching this, though.

By Katharine (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

getting it on

Is it some sort of euphemism for cephalopod porn?

By jcmartz.myopenid.com (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

With those two lights behind it---it looks a bit like the FSM.

A bit like? If we were Christians, we'd be emailing this image all over teh intert00bz as 'proof' of the existence of his beer volcano, while simultaneously complaining that America was built on pastafarian principles and Obama is the antipasto.

By Brownian, OM (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

and Obama is the antipasto

ROTFL!

By David Marjanović (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

Looks like someone else is copying Seinfeld’s move.

By https://www.go… (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

Please give us a video next time - it'd be even hotter with movement!

Tentacle porn FTW!

re. #10

Pigmy Hippo

Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Tree stump

slightly blurry photo, non-digital

By John Scanlon FCD (not verified) on 23 Apr 2010 #permalink

I think we may have the making of an animal husbandry pornography ring here.