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Rough sex: mating in Octopus mercatoris
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Neogonodactylus
Vampyroteuthis
Registered: March 2003
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA
Posts: 250
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One of the more frustrating things I have tried to photograph is mating in O. mercatoris. Males pounce on females, envelop the them, insert the hectocotylus (which rarely can be seen except as a tangle of arms) and eventually the female pulls free. In this shot you can see the female's eye in the bottom of the field.
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| · Date: Sun April 1, 2007 · Views: 2668 · Filesize: 30.2kb, 382.6kb · Dimensions: 726 x 1000 ·
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Keywords: Octopus mercatoris mating
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