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?
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Next Disney Animal buddy film
The octopus was a pickpocket who got stuck.
That was no accident. The octopus did it on porpoise.
An abomination for sure.
GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
That can replace the cat dangling on the tree branch in the “Hang in there” and “Holy Shit!” posters.
You see? This is what happens when we allow gay and lesbian couples to marry!
Any port in a storm. Not a bad place to attempt shelter from a hungry dolphin.”Up yours! You murderous mammal.” literally.
I’ve heard that male dolphin sexuality is kind of like male human teen agers. If it moves….
That dolphin looks approximately like any horse that wants to get rid of an annoying passenger/rider/saddle. It’s an impressive buck.
Obviously the dolphin is a James Bond fan.
Sharktopus!
Oh. Maybe not.
@nigelTheBold: Indeed. Let’s stop giving The Asylum more ideas for movies, Nature.
For all we know, the octopus is merely using the dolphin as transportation.
Am I the only one who thought Dream of the Dolphin’s Wife?
Shortly afterwards, a disembodied flipper floats to the surface.
I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
I think we all know by now that cephalopods will fire those spermatophores anywhere.
Photoshop?
Dream of the Cetacean’s Wife.
No evidence here of anything but a consensual beak-and-radula job. Stop shaming our marine brethren!
Nope. Nor photchopped
http://ioniandolphinproject.org/about-the-project/gallery/#dolphins
So are octopus sort of like the gerbils of the sea?
Better them than sea urchins, I guess.
The dolphin is not so much suffering from crabs as it is from octopus.
Imagine the offspring they’d have, if they could.
2 of the 3 smartest creatures on earth right there.
@baal
Dolphins! The frat boys of he aquatic world.
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*.
Carpenterman, a friendly heads up: please avoid the word “bitch” in your future postings, as its usage is insulting to women.
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.
No beak! No beak!
I suppose it’s less permanent than a piercing.
Therrin: Dunno, an octopus might scar more…
Cthulhu’s genitals were stranger than anyone could have imagined. The non-Euclidean horror!
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.
Does the octopus get a big, shiny belt buckle for staying on the full eight seconds?
Rishathra?
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.
It’s quite obvious that the octopus has bitten off more than it can chew.
Succubus?
I, for one, will welcome our squidolphian overlords.