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Scientists have been discovered that mating octopus, of the blue male line will inject a powerful neurotoxin, incapable in the hearts of October of female
Women are usually twice the size of men and will usually sit on their sexual partners after coitus.
But now, research reveals, men have evolved to use a poison called tetrodotoxin (TTX) to immobilize the octomas that will be soon.
Sexual cannibalism is common among cephalopods – such as October – as well as in other animals such as spiders or mantles.
When it comes to female octopus, lead author of the Wen-Sung Chung study, a neurobiologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, told CNN, to eat their sexual spouse allows them to conserve enough energy to produce eggs and incubate them. He described men as a “final snack” for women.
Other octopus species have evolved to have long mating wings that give them a safe distance during sex and allow them to avoid cannibalism-but blue line October
Chung described their mating process as “a gun race between the sexes” to find a way to spend their genes in the next generation of octopus.
“It’s a kind of survival skill,” he said.
Strange findings were published in the current magazine Biology.
Blue-line octopus-which can grow to about 1.77 inches, with the same size as a golf ball-is known to be one of the most dangerous animals at sea due to poison.
Some people in Australia have died after being bitten from one second to the extreme power of poison, according to the Australian Museum in Sydney, but Chung said this is the first time there has been evidence of a neurotoxin used for matting or protection.
“They have very strange mating behavior,” Chung said, adding that mounting is the only way to an octopus with blue line connected to the male to saturate an octopus with blue line.
When filming the sea of sea to monitor how they procure, Chung noted that men approach women from behind and bite them in a specific area – this would allow TTX to enter their aorta.
The woman would ever be immobilized and stopped creating for about an hour, giving the opposite time to reach the end without eating.
After a while, the woman would wake up “quite weak,” Chung said.
None of the women died as a result of TXX during the study – indicating that there may be resistance to toxin.
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