Q:How do octopus have sex ?
Generally, male octopuses have an arm modified to deliver a packet of sperm. They insert this arm into the females’ mantle and deposit that sperm. They often try to stay as far away from each other as possible because cannibalism is always a possibility. In the video above, the octopus are mating beak-to-beak— which is very strange, but very cool. So cool that we wrote paper about it.
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