The Dangerous Life of the Male Blanket Octopus.

Posted by Alex in Animal on May 25, 2006 at 1:04 am


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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3 comments to "The Dangerous Life of the Male Blanket Octopus."

  1. Fitena
    May 25th, 2006 at 1:56 am

    Its not funny. Its sad! lol! I absolutely loved this! Am definitely using this for my Homework here: rodeoblogging.blogspot.com
    Fitèna

  2. dodgyd55
    May 25th, 2006 at 6:03 pm

    wow sux to be them

  3. James
    May 26th, 2006 at 9:23 pm

    I definetly have some kind of affinity with these creatures. I think it's quite romantic.


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