I sure want to know more:
Giants have very strange sexual behaviour where the male has a metre-long muscular penis that he uses a bit like a nail gun and shoots cords of sperm under the skin of the female’s arms and she carries the sperm around with her until she is ready to lay her big jelly mass of a million eggs.
Nix • July 18, 2008 4:47 PM
Sorry, that sounds like perfectly normal squid biology to me, only it isn’t a penis, it’s a modified arm, a hectocotylus. PZ has a fairly good description: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/02/tentacle_sex.php
(Sometimes they get confused during mating; confused enough to shoot sperm into their own arms…)
Andre LePlume • July 18, 2008 5:13 PM
“Sometimes they get confused during mating; confused enough to shoot sperm into their own arms.”
I can safely say that this is not limited to cephalopods.
altjira • July 18, 2008 8:02 PM
“the male swims upside-down above the female…”
Why doesn’t he just go ahead and say it – isn’t this the missionary position? Isn’t that extremely rare in the animal kingdom?
Davi Ottenheimer • July 20, 2008 4:41 PM
“penis that he uses a bit like a nail gun”
nail gun? of all the things that fire projectiles, surely that is not the best one they could think of.
Anonymous • July 21, 2008 6:15 AM
Animals are disgusting. No wonder people are driving them to the point of extinction.
David G. Holm • July 25, 2008 1:33 PM
Squid happens: http://www.comedity.com/index.php?strip_id=111
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LiviuX • July 18, 2008 4:31 PM
Great photo with that man amd his hands 🙂