Sci/Tech Scientists probe giant squid group sex secrets

[The Helper]

excerpt from the article -

Group sex

He says the reproductive habits of giant squids are particularly interesting and will be the focus of much study.

"We will look at whether it has been mated or not. Whether it is a male or female."

"Giants have very strange sexual behaviour where the male has a metre-long muscular penis that he uses a bit like a nail gun and shoots cords of sperm under the skin of the female's arms and she carries the sperm around with her until she is ready to lay her big jelly mass of a million eggs."

"We want to find out whether they gather somewhere together to mass-breed."

Scientists probe giant squid sex secrets

Victorian scientists are preparing to dissect a giant squid caught off the state's south-west coast last week.

www.abc.net.au

 

[UnknowVector]

>He says because its food must be swallowed through the ring-shaped brain, the head and mouth has had to adapt.

>"They've got this giant beak like a giant parrot with a tongue covered in teeth, and they have to puree the food so they don't get a splitting headache every time they swallow."

Holy $hit.

 

[BANANAMAN]

>"Giants have very strange sexual behaviour where the male has a metre-long muscular penis that he uses a bit like a nail gun and shoots cords of sperm under the skin of the female's arms

Im gonna try that sometime...

>Scientists probe giant squid sex secrets

Ooookay....I sure as hell don't want a video documentary of that

 

[BlargIAmDead]

I think it's fascinating that, just ten years ago, these animals were pretty much on a par with the Loch Ness Monster as far as evidence they even existed, and nowadays we're discussing their sex lives. Science is neat.

 

[BANANAMAN]

and very wierd