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minus-squareRose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·7 days agoThat is either a very strange mating ritual, or that cuttlefish is a narcissist.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83·7 days agoCuttlefish encounter other cuttlefish so rarely, it’s always a good idea to squeeze one out just in case it happens to be a female.
minus-squareRose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·7 days agoThat makes a weird kind of sense. It was moreso the sixteen minutes that threw me, all I could picture was two of them having a staring contest for 16 minutes and then suddenly sperm and eggs everywhere.
That is either a very strange mating ritual, or that cuttlefish is a narcissist.
Cuttlefish encounter other cuttlefish so rarely, it’s always a good idea to squeeze one out just in case it happens to be a female.
That makes a weird kind of sense. It was moreso the sixteen minutes that threw me, all I could picture was two of them having a staring contest for 16 minutes and then suddenly sperm and eggs everywhere.
Squid fucks weird