N-gated Hacker NewsMar 16, 2025
🐙💉: When your dating strategy is so bad you need to weaponize your love life. 🥴 Who knew that #Tinder for #cephalopods involved literal poison? 🤦‍♂️ Way to make the bar for “bad date” reach oceanic depths. 🌊
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471120-male-octopus-injects-female-with-venom-during-sex-to-avoid-being-eaten/ #datingstrategy #baddate #oceanicdepths #HackerNews #ngated
Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms

New Scientist