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juliansessoms@aol.com: "Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh...."
jrro2020: "it is freaking beautiful"
LiquidFascia: "An unusual defense mechanism in the species has evolved: blanket octopuses are immune to the poisonous Portuguese man o' war, whose tentacles the female rips off and uses later for defensive purposes."
LiquidFascia: "The male's small size in fact allows him to reach sexual maturity faster, raising the chances that when a female stumbles upon him, he is ready to copulate."
LiquidFascia: "The male can afford to be small, since his chance of mating with a female and passing on genes does not depend on size, though the female's size is necessary to pass on as many healthy offspring as possible."
LiquidFascia: "octopus is incongruously smaller than the female who can grow to over 2 m. This means that the female can be 100 times larger than her mate, and up to 40,000 times heavier."
LiquidFascia: "These species have an extreme degree of sexual dimorphism. According to the Melbourne Museum, "there's no other non-microscopic critter that has such a significant size difference between the male and female." Measuring only 2.4 cm long, the male blanket"
LiquidFascia: "he fills one of his tentacles with sperm and tears it from his body. He gives this sperm-filled tentacle to the female which she then uses to fertilize her eggs. Afterwards, the female leaves the male who floats away and dies."
LiquidFascia: "The blanket octopuses, four species of octopus in the Tremoctopus genus, are found in the waters of Australia's Northern Coast. The male blanket octopus spends his existence drifting along waiting to meet with a female. If the male meets a female, he f"
thanh tuan: "chan may` ng` wa' ah` c0 hieu tui n0i gi` k0 .......hay ngu chu ma` hok bit tui chi noi dzay th0j....?chu may ng` lam` sa0 thi` lam "
thanh tuan: "lam` gj` ..... ma` trang nay` chan the ha??????? cui` thi` noi dai di..... can` gi` ma` phai lam` ha? nho lam` sa0 cho no tai nhanh len nhá! thi` moi co nhieu` khach dz0 coi"
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Anon: "Its like the batman of the sea."
Jul 18 '07 
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animals, japanese, water, science, fish
As most people know, many octopuses release ink as a strategy to evade predator. The strange blanket octopus, however, in the genus Tremoctopus, uses a very different technique. When threatened, the blanket octopus releases a giant cape-like webbing. I think most of you land-lubbers will find this to be quite an unusual sight.
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