
Everything We Know About Squids
Stuff You Should Know
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The Squid Life Cycle Is Short, Right?
The male squid has sperm that ar produce intestes, or testus. And a they th the sperm is stored in a sack. When they do mate, the male has the special arm that transfers packets of sperm to the female's mouth cavity. So then, after the eggs are fertilized, the female um squid basically spits em out in what's termed er, what's am described as a gelatinous mass of fertilized eggs. But it turns out, chuck, that the female squid actually goes and grabs the fertilized eggs and then sets about hiding them before she dies. She does this before she dies, because i think usually both the male and the female usually die after they
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