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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Last time I did that, I got arrested.

Here I was, trying to contribute to science and, it's all "indecent exposure", and "this is a public pool, there's no cuttlefish for you to impregnate". Sheesh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 91 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

No one tells you that male rats and mice find certain substrates very erotic. Like a mesh floor, or warm plexiglas. They will rub, groom, and nibble until they ejaculate while you are habituating and testing them, with certain drugs increasing the frequency of these events (morphine for example). So every once in a while I go 'I'm scrubbing rat cum off the mesh floor for money, again'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

You haven't known love until a rat ejaculates on your finger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I would do it for free

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Ah, that was me in grad school. Hell, technically I paid them for the privilege.

[โ€“] CluckN 47 points 12 hours ago

๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿ“ธ

[โ€“] TropicalDingdong 8 points 8 hours ago

[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

That is either a very strange mating ritual, or that cuttlefish is a narcissist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Cuttlefish encounter other cuttlefish so rarely, it's always a good idea to squeeze one out just in case it happens to be a female.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago

That makes a weird kind of sense. It was moreso the sixteen minutes that threw me, all I could picture was two of them having a staring contest for 16 minutes and then suddenly sperm and eggs everywhere.

[โ€“] NielsBohron 18 points 10 hours ago

"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me"

[โ€“] Slab_Bulkhead 34 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

$ on its the of cuttlefish

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Is Kanye a gay fish?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, he like fish sticks

[โ€“] blazeknave 4 points 6 hours ago

In his mouth?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

Squid fucks weird

[โ€“] AffineConnection 4 points 8 hours ago

Does that mean it's going to die now, or does that not happen in cuttlefish?

[โ€“] danekrae 18 points 12 hours ago

I've done that.

I don't have any animals...

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Sudden prevalence of hand mirrors at the local aquarium...

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

This guy is admin and regular uploader at CephaloHub... :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Something something Octopussy