Cephalopod sex is varied and wacky. Octopuses have eight arms, but squid and cuttlefish have eight arms plus two tentacles. When the male squid see another squid, they will punch through the body cavity and just like stick sperm somewhere in there. So that just sounds like a terrible approach, but do they survive it? Yeah.
Squids. Cuttlefish. Octopusseseses. The world's most impassioned squid nerd, Sarah McAnulty, gets locked in a basement with Alie to talk about cephalopods, alien DNA, camouflage, invisibility cloaks, why cute things make us insane, terrible mating strategies, cute and clever ones and why she is so charmed by squid. Also addressed: Philly accents and the Kraken.
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Editing by Steven Ray Morris
Music by Nick Thorburn