Beak to Beak: Rare Octopus Mating Strategy Discovered | California Academy of Sciences

How do octopuses mate? Scientists studying the little-known larger Pacific striped octopus have made a surprising discovery about the mating strategy of this elusive species. The team—including Richard Ross, senior aquarium biologist and cephalopod expert from the California Academy of Sciences— observed that males and females come together in an intimate beak-to-beak, sucker-to-sucker position. This never-before-seen behavior challenges all that is known about "conventional" octopus reproduction.

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Video footage by Rich Ross, California Academy of Sciences and Roy Caldwell, UC Berkeley

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