Octo-Love: Tentative Tentacles
How do octopuses* do it?
With eight arms, mind boggling possibilities spring to mind.
5am: It's a full moon. We are on Sentosa and it's Octo Party Time.
But first, we have to FIND the octopus.
Here's one!
But wait, why does it have one tentacle stretched out like that?
Waaay at the other end of the tentacle is ....
... ANOTHER octopus.
Something is going on here!
After a while, Miss Octopus turns brown and decides to leave the scene, after puffing a few choice words. But Mr Octopus still keeps a white tentacle in/up/on her, even as she moves about.
As she forages among the stones, pretending to ignore him, he still keeps in touch. Though always at a safe max tentacle-length. He is obviously a bit nervous. Octopuses often turn white when stressed.
As she disappears under a rock, he comes a little closer.
While he is looking down the hole she disappeared into, she extends a tentacle out from the OTHER side of the rock to feel him herself. It seems all girls know how to play hard to get.
We don't really know if they did IT after all.
Well, at least we now know, octopuses hardly hug.
Sentosa was crawling with life. Mating with each other, eating each other, generally
having a blast.
*Octopus Grammar: One octopus, two octopuses. NOT octopi and certainly not octopussies.
The Science of Octopus Love: Octopuses are generally solitary creatures that avoid each other. But during the mating season, the male will wander in search of females. The male octopus has a modified third arm, usually the third right arm. This arm has a spoon-shaped tip and a groove along the length of the arm. He inserts the tip of this arm into the female's oviducts (place where her eggs come out) and inserts small packets of sperm (spermatophores). She stores these until she is ready to lay her eggs. It is believed that she mates only once, while the male mates with as many females as he can. He dies soon after the mating season ends.
With eight arms, mind boggling possibilities spring to mind.
5am: It's a full moon. We are on Sentosa and it's Octo Party Time.
But first, we have to FIND the octopus.
Here's one!
But wait, why does it have one tentacle stretched out like that?
Waaay at the other end of the tentacle is ....
... ANOTHER octopus.
Something is going on here!
After a while, Miss Octopus turns brown and decides to leave the scene, after puffing a few choice words. But Mr Octopus still keeps a white tentacle in/up/on her, even as she moves about.
As she forages among the stones, pretending to ignore him, he still keeps in touch. Though always at a safe max tentacle-length. He is obviously a bit nervous. Octopuses often turn white when stressed.
As she disappears under a rock, he comes a little closer.
While he is looking down the hole she disappeared into, she extends a tentacle out from the OTHER side of the rock to feel him herself. It seems all girls know how to play hard to get.
We don't really know if they did IT after all.
Well, at least we now know, octopuses hardly hug.
Sentosa was crawling with life. Mating with each other, eating each other, generally
having a blast.
*Octopus Grammar: One octopus, two octopuses. NOT octopi and certainly not octopussies.
The Science of Octopus Love: Octopuses are generally solitary creatures that avoid each other. But during the mating season, the male will wander in search of females. The male octopus has a modified third arm, usually the third right arm. This arm has a spoon-shaped tip and a groove along the length of the arm. He inserts the tip of this arm into the female's oviducts (place where her eggs come out) and inserts small packets of sperm (spermatophores). She stores these until she is ready to lay her eggs. It is believed that she mates only once, while the male mates with as many females as he can. He dies soon after the mating season ends.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home