dirtydirtychai:

postmodernmulticoloredcloak:

flylittlekoala:

the first time EVER scientists managed to spot a pair of deep sea octopi mating it turned out to be 1. two males and 2. two males of different species 3. the much smaller octopus was clearly topping. neither of the octopi showed any sign of distress, so they clearly were into it, and octopi are too smart not to know what they were doing. source

the animal kingdom is a lot gayer than people want you to believe.

everything about this documentary is amazing 

dramatic zoom on the sexing octopuses 

“the little white male is trying to mate with an octopus over four times his size” something tells me straight octopus research scientists don’t get out to gay bars much 

narrator: this third arm is the male’s reproductive organ. 

*video of octopuses sexing it up* 

narrator: in these unique pictures, the smaller octopus is inserting his reproductive arm under the mantle of the larger octopus and attempting to copulate.

*video shows large octopus’ tentacle reaching up to caress the smaller white one* 

narrator: but why?

(via prettyprettypretties)

Source: youtu.be

octopusthingz:

#DidYouKnow when discovered, an octopus will release a cloud of black ink to obscure its attacker’s view, giving it time to swim away. The ink even contains a substance that dulls a predator’s sense of smell, making the fleeing octopus harder to track. Fast swimmers, they can jet forward by expelling water through their mantles. And their soft bodies can squeeze into impossibly small cracks and crevices where predators can’t follow. 📽: @natgeofound

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0ct0pus:

An ingenious octopus has been showing off his house-building skills, using bits of trash found on the seabed - a spoon, a flip-flop and some coconut shell.

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The clip, filmed off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok, shows the crafty cephalopod dragging the items across the ocean floor and then constructing a little hut where he can hide from sharks and other predators.

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The critter in question is a coconut octopus (amphioctopus marginatus), a species only discovered in 1964 and named after its habit of finding and using coconuts. This one is only about three inches long, with tentacles about six inches long, which means it can fit quit snugly into a home made of a flip-flop and a coconut shell (source).

0ct0pus:

While carrying out some maintenance work off the Canadian coast in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists aboard the ocean research vessel Nautilus found themselves squaring off with a small octopus.

As you can see, the octopus does not want to let the robotic arm get the rope ! Note that the team assured no tentacle were armed during the “struggle”.

(via Hey, that’s mine! Octopus meets underwater ROV, tentacled tug of war ensues | oceans | Earth Touch News)