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Alex in
Animals & Pets on May 25, 2006 at 1:04 am
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Think you got it bad? The male blanket octopus is 100 times smaller than his mate. As if that’s not bad enough, he dies right after having sex with her.
… the male blanket octopus is, technically speaking, "the most extreme example of sexual size-dimorphism in a non-microscopic animal … such dimorphism is not seen in any other animal remotely as large".
Dr Norman said: "There’s no other critters on that scale that have such a significant difference between the male and female."
The two-metre female weighs at least 10,000 times as much as the male, sometimes up to 40,000 times as much.
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