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By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer




SAN FRANCISCO - Marine biologists studying wild octopuses have found a kinky and violent society of jealous murders, gender subterfuge and once-in-a-lifetime sex.


The new study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia found that wild octopuses are far from the shy, unromantic loners their captive brethren appear to be.

The scientists watched the Abdopus aculeatus octopus, which are the size of an orange, for several weeks and published their findings recently in the journal Marine Biology.

They witnessed picky, macho males carefully select a mate, then guard their newly domesticated digs so jealously that they would occasionally use their 8-to-10-inch tentacles to strangle a romantic rival to death.

The researchers also observed smaller "sneaker" male octopuses put on feminine airs, such as swimming girlishly near the bottom and keeping their male brown stripes hidden in order to win unsuspecting conquests.

And size does matter — but not how you'd think.

"If you're going to spend time guarding a female, you want to go for the biggest female you can find because she's going to produce more eggs," said UC Berkeley biologist Roy Caldwell, who co-wrote the study. "It's basically an investment strategy."

Shortly after the female gives birth, about a month after conception, both the mother and father die, researchers said.

"It's not the sex that leads to death," said Christine Huffard, the study's lead author. "It's just that octopuses produce offspring once during a very short lifespan of a year."

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Ockies actually break off a tentacle with a sperm sac to fertilise the egg cluster within the mantle of the female. Now there's a sacrifice for sex.

Oi mum, he just hit me in the tentacles.

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I was shocked to read of the short life expectancy.

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Octopedes...the proper latin plural of octopus is octopodes.

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at the risk of sounding pedantic, octopus is not latin, it’s greek, therefore there is no latin plural. the proper (if somewhat pretentious) plural is octopodes but octopi is totally acceptable as is octopuses. octopedes however, is just flat out wrong.

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As octopus is a foreign word taken into the english language, it has become an english word. The predominant way of creating a plural is to add 'es', or just 's' if the word ends with an e.

o c t o p u s e s.

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-"pus" is in fact latin, borrowed from the original Greek.
-"pous" is the original Greek.

Therefore, latin, octopodes. The "pedes" came from the fact that I can't type, despite being able to spell. Case in point: that sentence I just typed required three backspaces to correct typos, and this one required two.

OF is of course, correct about the *english* plural of octopus.

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pus/pous are the greek root for foot, ped and other forms of ped (pede, pedia) are latin. pous is also the greek measurement.

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Octopus, of thee I begs,
Is they arms or is they legs?
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(as long as we're hijacking the thread anyway)

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Octopus: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Eudaimonia

so sayeth wiki, so sayeth we all. ohhhmmm

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Om gonna patme bum.

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