Jun 18 2012

Weird pairing

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All I want to know is…who instigated this unholy coupling? Was it the dolphin getting kinky? Was it the octopus feeling amorous? Or was it possibly a mutually agreed-upon exploration of new sexual frontiers?

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Mr Ed

18 June 2012 at 1:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Next Disney Animal buddy film
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NitricAcid

18 June 2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The octopus was a pickpocket who got stuck.
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Randomfactor

18 June 2012 at 1:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That was no accident. The octopus did it on porpoise.
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Thomas Lawson

18 June 2012 at 1:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

An abomination for sure.
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Rev. BigDumbChimp

18 June 2012 at 1:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That was no accident. The octopus did it on porpoise.

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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Thomas Lawson

18 June 2012 at 1:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That can replace the cat dangling on the tree branch in the “Hang in there” and “Holy Shit!” posters.
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Synfandel

18 June 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You see? This is what happens when we allow gay and lesbian couples to marry!
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dfarmer1584

18 June 2012 at 1:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Any port in a storm. Not a bad place to attempt shelter from a hungry dolphin.”Up yours! You murderous mammal.” literally.
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baal

18 June 2012 at 1:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’ve heard that male dolphin sexuality is kind of like male human teen agers. If it moves….
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trinebm

18 June 2012 at 2:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That dolphin looks approximately like any horse that wants to get rid of an annoying passenger/rider/saddle. It’s an impressive buck.
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cyberCMDR

18 June 2012 at 2:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Obviously the dolphin is a James Bond fan.
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nigelTheBold, who sings like a needle to the ear

18 June 2012 at 2:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sharktopus!

Oh. Maybe not.
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Naked Bunny with a Whip

18 June 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@nigelTheBold: Indeed. Let’s stop giving The Asylum more ideas for movies, Nature.
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'Tis Himself

18 June 2012 at 2:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

For all we know, the octopus is merely using the dolphin as transportation.
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anthropocene

18 June 2012 at 2:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Am I the only one who thought Dream of the Dolphin’s Wife?
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hyperdeath

18 June 2012 at 3:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Shortly afterwards, a disembodied flipper floats to the surface.
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Sili

18 June 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
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Stella

18 June 2012 at 3:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I think we all know by now that cephalopods will fire those spermatophores anywhere.
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nooneinparticular

18 June 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Photoshop?
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Agent Silversmith, Feathered Patella Association

18 June 2012 at 3:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Dream of the Cetacean’s Wife.
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ChasCPeterson

18 June 2012 at 4:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

No evidence here of anything but a consensual beak-and-radula job. Stop shaming our marine brethren!
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nooneinparticular

18 June 2012 at 4:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Nope. Nor photchopped

http://ioniandolphinproject.org/about-the-project/gallery/#dolphins
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Blondin

18 June 2012 at 4:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

So are octopus sort of like the gerbils of the sea?

Better them than sea urchins, I guess.
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frankb

18 June 2012 at 4:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The dolphin is not so much suffering from crabs as it is from octopus.
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Evader, the parasite-infested branch on the evolutionary tree

18 June 2012 at 4:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Imagine the offspring they’d have, if they could.

2 of the 3 smartest creatures on earth right there.
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Akira MacKenzie

18 June 2012 at 5:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@baal

Dolphins! The frat boys of he aquatic world.
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carpenterman

18 June 2012 at 6:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Is this one of those Greek god things? You know, Zeus or Apollo (or one of that crowd) taking on animal form? ‘Cause those sons of bitches would screw *anything*.
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Agent Silversmith, Feathered Patella Association

18 June 2012 at 7:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Carpenterman, a friendly heads up: please avoid the word “bitch” in your future postings, as its usage is insulting to women.
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Cephas Borg

18 June 2012 at 8:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

ShadowFin and Max the Gripper cared not for the conventions of their parents’ generation; they just looked forward to the end of the feeding patrol, when they could escape the glances, the bubble-mutterings, and the flipped fins, and explore their bodies together in gleeful exuberance… Awwww.
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Ragutis

18 June 2012 at 10:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

No beak! No beak!
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Therrin

19 June 2012 at 1:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I suppose it’s less permanent than a piercing.
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Gnumann

19 June 2012 at 1:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Therrin: Dunno, an octopus might scar more…
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anteprepro

19 June 2012 at 2:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cthulhu’s genitals were stranger than anyone could have imagined. The non-Euclidean horror!
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sc_3e62dc577db199efd9513ac1518a0ade

19 June 2012 at 5:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I have to assume a octophin will result, hence simultaneously giving the creationists the proof they need for Evolution and conclusively disproving it in a two for one display of insanity.
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bbgunn

19 June 2012 at 7:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Does the octopus get a big, shiny belt buckle for staying on the full eight seconds?
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telamonides

19 June 2012 at 7:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Rishathra?
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killerbud

19 June 2012 at 8:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

As soon as I saw this I clicked to Pharyngula to see if PZ had already saw it. There is no doubt, the internet octopi are PZ’s personal domain.
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carbonbasedlifeform

19 June 2012 at 11:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s quite obvious that the octopus has bitten off more than it can chew.
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SplendidMonkey

19 June 2012 at 3:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Succubus?
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stubby

19 June 2012 at 6:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I, for one, will welcome our squidolphian overlords.