Forced Fidelity

Forced Fidelity

Meeting

Taningia danae,

Mating

in the dark depths

of oceans

in chance encounters

Male

rips incisions

with beak,

with claws

into the fair female’s neck

moving rapidly

and then

deposits the spermatophores

into the wounds

with a penis

92 centimeters long

 

and dashes  away

before the female lashes out and

devours him

in a cannibalistic reaction

Thereafter she

is sworn off sex for good.

 

Sperm storage and mating in the deep-sea squid Taningia danae
Joubin, 1931 (Oegopsida: Octopoteuthidae)

The Disturbing Sex Lives of Deep Sea Squid

 

 

 

 

 

11 Responses »

    • Bioluminescent cephalopods emitting short flashes from light-producing organs, called photophores, on their arms

      in a possible courtship dance

      Humans also mate in the dark with sparks that flash now and then

    • Thanks Fons

      The beginning to that disturbs me and makes me feel irritable for some reason

      Although on other versions I have listened to it’s alright not the same reaction

  1. Jewaira, I love, love, love your blog you really are refreshingly audacious. Keep it up girl.
    That some pretty wild ritual by the squid. Will remember that next time I’m having calamari.

    • Hello K
      Many thanks for your appreciative beams
      Makes me feel good

      The intimate lives of animals provides a lot for thoughtful reflection on our own

  2. Under water love-Whale-vibrations “in the beginning” in the deep sea.-Song for our ancestors-.
    St.Miller memories, Saw him once ” live ” in Ahoy Harbour Town early eighties. Sweet critical, romantic,on the run looking for . . .

    Fox and me were on our way for Mesh City the south place from Holland for an arty square design job in that town.
    He controlled the green Renault 4 from his girlfriend, 200 kilometre Dutch Landscape on Autobahn.
    Green grass till horizon.Stately once mighty castle towns, ancient parishes, bridged broad mighty rivers, some trees in the green some friendly white cloud tufts in the bright blue.
    Far away a yellow train caterpillar horizon.
    Fox and me we’re good friends, share a mind-blowing interest. that time.
    A steady motor cadence Steve Miller Sailor on cassette sticky dark Afghan hash white power crystalline on the move …..
    Fresh Air…we feel free free like that…,
    Then, an hour, we drove into the slipstream from a/the last military narrow formation column truck.
    Blushing young farmer-boys in military uniforms look dumb down on two spaced-out good spirit up beat laughing boys in a green Renault 4 listen to- a Gangster of Love- what’s ending with good spirit upbeat laughers.

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