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January 9, 2009
Friday Squid Blogging: Bizarre Squid Reproductive Habits
Lots of them:
Hoving investigated the reproductive techniques of no fewer than ten different squids and related cuttlefish -- from the twelve-metre long giant squid to a mini-squid of no more than twenty-five millimetres in length. Along the way he made a number of remarkable discoveries. Hoving: "Reproduction is no fun if you're a squid. With one species, the Taningia danae, I discovered that the males give the females cuts of at least 5 centimetres deep in their necks with their beaks or hooks -- they don't have suction pads. They then insert their packets of sperm, also called spermatophores, into the cuts."
Posted on January 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM • 6 Comments
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Jeff Day • January 9, 2009 4:54 PM
I find his assertion that cutting your mate isn't fun insulting and judgmental. Who's he to judge what squid do in their free time?
Cannonball Jones • January 10, 2009 3:10 AM
Hmm, if that's what they get up to when no-one's looking I might have to rethink getting one tattooed on my back. It'd be a nightmare trying to explain the cuts to the lifeguards at the pool...
John Waters • January 11, 2009 12:30 AM
Bizarre? I know Cure fans that have been doing that since Jr. Highschool.
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