September 29, 2005

All Squid, All the Time

Continuing the Squid Day theme, Felix sends a link to an article about the sexual habits of the giant squid.

"Males get round their inferior size by being endowed with a particularly long penis, which means they can inject the female without having to get too close to her chomping beak. The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body -- excluding legs and head.

It seems that coordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body." ( Link )

Posted by Alex at 03:34 PM