Friday Cephalopod: I don’t remember dating being this hazardous


The Seattle aquarium isn’t playing the matchmaking game with their octopuses anymore, for a chilling reason: they’re afraid that a date might turn into a public cannibal orgy.

Larger-Pacific-Striped-Octopus

I don’t recall that peril from my youth, back when I was actively dating. I’m lucky to have escaped Seattle alive!

Comments

  1. Al Dente says

    they’re afraid that a date might turn into a public cannibal orgy.

    You make that sound like a bad thing.

  2. anbheal says

    Well worth following the link in the RawStory article to the YouTube video of the octopus quite easily attacking, subduing, and killing the shark.