I'm pretty sure they're fighting. See how they flash changing colors and stretch themselves out? They're also blowing water at each other which is why the sand keeps puffing up.
@@silver_tongue9644 because the male has a special arm (longer) it uses to deliver a bundle of sperm directly into the female's mantle cavity, and it appears it's what they are both trying to at the same time and also pushing the other away.
I’ve not seen octopuses be aggressive like this while engaging in sex. Seems they both are willing participants when I’ve seen before. Oh, yeah! I’ve seen a lot! Cuz I absolutely love these animals!! I just adore them. It makes me sad to know they’re engaging in “foreplay” for death, but don’t know it. She dies after right after they hatch and he dies maybe around a couple months later. After he has ejaculated, it has physiologically changed many things and he loses appetite. Yeah, he basically starves to death, but there are other chemicals that have changed in his body. Evolution was too kind to them.
yeah i guess it would be there planet..i knew the female died when her children hatched. i didnt know about the male. the way both parents die for their offspring reminds me of "the darkness" its comics
Care for a little Fishermans story? As a Kid I used to spearfish octapusses (octapussies??) a lot. Usually they hide below a rock, alll you can see is the eye and one arm. When you approach them they do their camouflage thing and once they realize you saw them they turn red, swell up, spit ink and disappear. so when it becomes red you hit it. at least the greek ones behave like this. So one day I see a strange looking mess of an octapus sit on top of a rock, moving slowly about. in broad day light, very unusual, so I cock my speargun an dive down. coming closer it ignores me and I notice it really looks strange, couldn't tell where it begins and ends. eventually I touch him with the trident, no reaction, just wiggling about. So I say, ok. your dead. Bam. and hit it. I hit two. They were clearly mating, and it didn't look anything like in this video. Also it really got to me. Very unsporty. It was my last octapus kill, I quit spearfishing after that. Marvelous intelligent animals.
@@murielvaillancourt3855 Right, Fishing they call it. and i really regret it. Awesome little Alien beeings. I spare you more details on how long it takes for their 9 brains to stop working after you rip their guts out. Ok?
@@murielvaillancourt3855 he clearly regretted it so much so that he quit spear fishing all together and your only reaction is to call him a murderer...? Nice one 👌🏻 smh
Nah, they both die. Its some inbuilt metebolic starving mechanism they have Otherwise they would have already taken over the world. Some species watch over the eggs till they hatch,then die of starvation. Strange eh?
I love octopuses, they are SO smart and evolved...SO I say this out of respect for them. Now that being said this is like watching Mortal Kombat...the sex edition. It seems like trying to have sex with a girl smacking the hell out of you every chance she gets. I have seen Octopus 🐙 mating before and I have never seen it with so much smacking.
