Octopuses are thoroughly antisocial. Yet for some reason they have evolved to mate in the most intimate way possible. Male octopuses have a big problem: female octopuses. Each male wants to mate and pass on his genes to a new generation. The trouble is, the female is often larger and hungrier than he is, so there is a constant risk that, instead of mating, the female will strangle him and eat him. The males have a host of tricks to survive the mating process. Some of them can quite literally mate at arm's length. Others sneak into a female's den disguised as another gal, or sacrifice their entire mating arm to the female and then make a hasty retreat.

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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. She discovered that the males were very picky and discriminating, that the females would have sex with just about anybody, and that male competition for females tended to be violent and frequent. Huffard, who received her Ph. They encountered four or five species the first afternoon. As a research subject, however, the Abdopus aculeatus won out because it was plentiful, lived in shallow water and was active during the day, Caldwell said. Huffard spotted the eight-armed creatures on several islands, but many were in her front yard - she was living on the water in a little wooden hut with no electricity. In the course of the study - which involved hours of animal observation - individual octopuses were located and identified.
Octopuses are considered the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Worldwide there are around recognized octopus species. The amazing facts about octopus are vast. But did you know that octopus has a dangerous sex life?