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Deep-Sea Squid Mate and Run
sciencehabit writes with a piece about deep sea squid in Science. Quoting the article: "Like actors in a scene from a bawdy farce, many squid don't know whom to woo when the lights go down. Deep in California's Monterey Bay, small squid belonging to the species Octopoteuthis deletron suffer from frequent cases of mistaken identity, a new study suggests. Males commonly try to mate with males as well as females, hinting that in the dark, these invertebrates may settle for whatever squid passes by. But their indiscriminate attention might improve the odds that they are occasionally successful."
Who wants to wake up next to a squid?
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Those things will bang about anything that moves (or doesn't), especially when they're on the liquor...which is pretty much most of the time.
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strangely, Japanese erotica pop to mind.
Any of us could make that mistake.
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Squids aren't so much bisexual, more like rapesexual.
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Specifically in remote, rural areas seem to suffer the same fate. GIT ER DUN!
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to know where this is going.
So, you are saying that the Japanese were right?
This seems fairly obvious. Squid will eat anything, including other squid.
I suspect this is to prevent your potential mate from turning you into dinner. So, fertilize and run like hell seems like a good strategy.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Omnisexual might be a better term, they'll go for whoever swims by.
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It sounds like a new secret weapon of the Cybermen: The brain of a squid fused with the advanced cybernetic technology of a parallel world; it's only purpose is to delete from existence those species that are incompatible with such an upgrade.
You are not compatible!
You will be DELETED!
I hear they wash up on Jersey Shore.
This is pretty much the way I've been mating for the last 15 years, and its highly effective.
Of course, you don't make too many friends and its tempting to deny you're the father of the uglier children that are sometimes brought around, but overall its a rather successful strategy.
Deep-sea squids display amazing human-like characteristics.
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That's my strategy!
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...I can't tell which are male or female either.
Clearly you need to hump your boss to work your way up the food chain.
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"Any ol' port in a storm!"
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I got the "Blue Oyster Bar" song in my head when reading, oddly fitting.
No wonder that calamari is off Leviticus' menu....unnatural fin-less fish. They obviously choose to mate with their own sex, these squid make bad lifestyle choices, they are ruining traditional marriage.
they'll go for whoever swims by.
I draw the line at 6 legs, myself.
these squid don't mate at all
they literally shoot passing squid with little sperm packets that embed themselves permanently. the investigators determined that these squid mate indiscriminately because they counted just as many rocket injection sites on males as on females
so these squid aren't bisexual or gay, they are kineto-sexual. they just sexually shoot other squid
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Surely "Trysexual", like Freddie Mercury? He'd try and have sex with anything.
No, he stopped at women, I thought.
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The question is... Where did he start?
Mind the frickin' laser...
Bukkake squids FTW!
It turns out that the male squid also squawks "call you tomorrow" during his drive-by shooting. Of course male squids never do. The revenge of the jilted female squid involves hacking the male's limbs off and deep-frying them while mockingly repeating "call ya' 'morrow". This is why we call it calimari.
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With whom will it mate?
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