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Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten
Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from ...
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Male Octopuses Stun Females With Venom to Survive Mating, Study Finds
The blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is only a few centimeters long, yet it may be one of the most dangerous ...
Male octopuses paralyse partners with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, scientists find
Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. At such a critical moment in US ...
Octopuses Use Venom for Safe Sex, Biologists Reveal
The venom used by the blue-lined octopus is "tetrodotoxin"—perhaps most famously known as the deadly poison found in pufferfish, whose meat is considered a delicacy but which can kill if not prepared ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
Their salivary glands are full of symbiotic bacteria, which pump out a deadly poison called tetrodotoxin, or TTX for short. The small cephalopods use the venom to protect themselves and kill their ...
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Why Japan's favorite poisonous pufferfish delicacy is expensive
The tetrodotoxin found in fugu is more toxic than cyanide, and each year about 20 people are poisoned from badly prepared fish. It takes a lot of skill and training to prepare the fish safely and ...