Octopus sex with girls

All rights reserved. A female blanket octopus is dramatically larger than males, which put their energy into finding females in the open ocean. It's true that gorilla males are much bigger than females. But dramatically large females are the norm in some species of frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and spiders. For instance, female map turtles , native to the central and eastern U. In orb weavers and crab spiders, "females may be a hundred times bigger than males," Jo-Anne Sewlal , an arachnologist at the University of the West Indies, St.

By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline. Humans may have their quirks and kinks, but sex in the animal kingdom can be truly strange and excruciatingly painful. Scroll down for video. The Argonaut octopus' pictured mating ritual has been voted the strangest. The eight-armed marine creature has a long, detachable penis in order to mate with females that are five times bigger than itself. When a female swims by, the male Argonaut sends his penis off to swim to the female and mate with her. In fact, the penis is a ball of sperm in a tentacle called a hectocotylus and females can be fertilised by more than one, by storing them in the mantle cavity.

Octopus sex is simple, dull and quick - at least that's what scientists used to think. Instead, it turns out to be complex, sophisticated and rife with petty rivalries. In the most detailed research ever conducted on this topic in the wild, UC Berkeley biologists focused on the mating behavior of the Abdopus aculeatus, one of more than species of octopus. They were stunned at what they learned.

Octopuses do the darndest things. Like kill their mate during mating — by strangling him with three arms , according to new observations from the wild. Enterprising scientists Christine Huffard and Mike Bartick watched wild octopuses in action. They found that, for males, mating can be a dangerous game.