Squidy sex
2008-07-09 | Filed under Calamari |
Scientists at the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo investigated sex between giant squid, which they deem “a fairly violent affair” involving a penis that is “a bit like a high-pressure fire hose.”
But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.
But fans of squid slash can take heart: “It is also possible that the sperm packages had come from other males that they had ‘bumped’ into, in the dark depths of the ocean.”
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What a wonderful putdown: “Ah, go inject yourself, buddy.”
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