Deep-Sea Squid Mate and Run 62
sciencehabit writes with a piece about deep sea squid in Science. Quoting the article: "Like actors in a scene from a bawdy farce, many squid don't know whom to woo when the lights go down. Deep in California's Monterey Bay, small squid belonging to the species Octopoteuthis deletron suffer from frequent cases of mistaken identity, a new study suggests. Males commonly try to mate with males as well as females, hinting that in the dark, these invertebrates may settle for whatever squid passes by. But their indiscriminate attention might improve the odds that they are occasionally successful."
Obvious (Score:3)
Who wants to wake up next to a squid?
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/raises hand
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Depends. Are we talking about the ones from Galaxy Quest that can morph into a chick like Missi Pyle?
Let's face it. Shape shifting aliens probably, at a minimum, doubles the chances for a significant portion of Slashdotters getting some. The rest are just doubling zero.
Although we both know that dude on Galaxy Quest was high as a mother fucker through the whole movie.
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Squids aren't so much bisexual, more like rapesexual.
Re:I like it! (Score:5, Funny)
So, you are saying that the Japanese were right?
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Omnisexual might be a better term, they'll go for whoever swims by.
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No, he stopped at women, I thought.
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The question is... Where did he start?
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That's my strategy!
Even more common among Appalachian Mud Squids (Score:2)
Those things will bang about anything that moves (or doesn't), especially when they're on the liquor...which is pretty much most of the time.
Don't be anal, shit happens (Score:1)
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strangely, Japanese erotica pop to mind.
A serious problem dude, you should have that looked into.
After the 12th beer... (Score:2)
Any of us could make that mistake.
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No. I'd be too unconscious.
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Yeah..... my friend keeps telling me that too..... even though in the dark recesses of the bar the rest of my friends and I could see the world class Adam's Apple on this "chick".
I had more than he did, by a large margin, so I don't buy it. However, him finding out was an absolute classic. Good times.
One Eyed Zipper Squids (Score:2)
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You obviously have never been to San Fransisco
I've seen enough Hentai... (Score:2, Funny)
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Any where they can stick it.
Duh ... (Score:3)
This seems fairly obvious. Squid will eat anything, including other squid.
I suspect this is to prevent your potential mate from turning you into dinner. So, fertilize and run like hell seems like a good strategy.
Re:Duh ... (Score:4, Interesting)
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And, what did you contribute other than a snide remark?
Shallow water squid will eat each other if they get too close. At depths when they can't see one another, it's hardly surprising they would run like hell after an attempt at mating.
This is like a lot of other science ... when someone observes it and documents it, it's fairly obvious. Until someone ob
Octopoteuthis deletron (Score:1)
It sounds like a new secret weapon of the Cybermen [wikipedia.org]: The brain of a squid fused with the advanced cybernetic technology of a parallel world; it's only purpose is to delete from existence those species that are incompatible with such an upgrade.
You are not compatible!
You will be DELETED!
Explains a lot. (Score:2)
I hear they wash up on Jersey Shore.
It works! (Score:1)
This is pretty much the way I've been mating for the last 15 years, and its highly effective.
Of course, you don't make too many friends and its tempting to deny you're the father of the uglier children that are sometimes brought around, but overall its a rather successful strategy.
This could also be titled... (Score:1)
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Clearly you need to hump your boss to work your way up the food chain.
Seems I have something in common with squid... (Score:2)
...I can't tell which are male or female either.
I am reminded of a song my cousins would sing... (Score:3)
"Any ol' port in a storm!"
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Unnatural Squid are an abonimation onto God... (Score:3, Funny)
missed the weirdest part of the article (Score:4, Informative)
these squid don't mate at all
they literally shoot passing squid with little sperm packets that embed themselves permanently. the investigators determined that these squid mate indiscriminately because they counted just as many rocket injection sites on males as on females
so these squid aren't bisexual or gay, they are kineto-sexual. they just sexually shoot other squid
Bukkake squids! (Score:1)
Interesting Etymology (Score:2)
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No wonder Cthulhu is pissed.
Release the Kraken! (Score:1)
While the hairy-nosed wombat... (Score:1)