Electric blue octopuses use potent venom to get females to mate — and not eat them
Now, researchers studying the octopuses have learned that not only do male blue-lined octopuses use their venom against ...
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Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating Them
Male blue-lined octopi (Hapalochlaena fasciata) have been found to use venom on their sexual partners, as well as for the ...
This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...
Octopuses Use Venom for Safe Sex, Biologists Reveal
"Mating ended when the females regained control of their arms and pushed the males off," the researchers noted.
Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the sea deed ...
How is the king cobra different from other cobras: Size, diet, venom, and other key differences
The king cobra, not a true cobra, distinguishes itself with its massive size, unique snake-eating diet, and significant ...
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This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
The males have evolved to use a venom called tetrodotoxin (TTX) to immobilize females, which are normally around twice their size and commonly eat their sexual partners, study lead author Wen-Sung ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
The small cephalopods use the venom to protect themselves and kill their ... Females are much larger than males, and after copulation, females often eat their partners. But males have evolved ...
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Boy in Critical Condition After Eating Snake
A family is in shock after their kin was hospitalized after eating a raw snake. The 15-year-old boy from Chemogoch Village, ...
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Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say
It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered ... But now, research reveals, males have evolved to use a venom called tetrodotoxin (TTX) to immobilize the soon-to-be octomoms.