A few years ago I saw a thing on PBS about cuttlefish. I believe it was an episode of "Nature." Female cuttlefish are typically smaller than males and have a more brown-ish color. They reproduce when a male loves a female very much and sort of gives her a "sperm-packet." (That's how it was described. Romantic!) A female can sort of hold on to only couple of these "packets" while she decides which one to choose and put into her lady-butt and make cuttlefish butt-babbeys. When a male "chooses" a female he "protects" her by swimming above her the whole time and chasing other potential suitors away with his big, manly, cuttlefish body. However! Some smaller male cuttlefish have figured out how to disguise themselves as female, sneak past the big, burly male and sneak their own packet to her. Basically, they dress in drag, slide past the overly-protective boyfriend and boink his girlfriend while he's out fighting other boys.
Yes, talk about camouflage, huh? Those diminutive Fancy Boys go backdoor-romancing all the ladies while Joey Testosterone goes off to war with all the other big boys. Just like WW II.
BTW, I'm adding the technical term " cuttlefish butt-babbeys" to my lexicon.
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A few years ago I saw a thing on PBS about cuttlefish. I believe it was an episode of "Nature." Female cuttlefish are typically smaller than males and have a more brown-ish color. They reproduce when a male loves a female very much and sort of gives her a "sperm-packet." (That's how it was described. Romantic!) A female can sort of hold on to only couple of these "packets" while she decides which one to choose and put into her lady-butt and make cuttlefish butt-babbeys. When a male "chooses" a female he "protects" her by swimming above her the whole time and chasing other potential suitors away with his big, manly, cuttlefish body. However! Some smaller male cuttlefish have figured out how to disguise themselves as female, sneak past the big, burly male and sneak their own packet to her. Basically, they dress in drag, slide past the overly-protective boyfriend and boink his girlfriend while he's out fighting other boys.
Yes, talk about camouflage, huh? Those diminutive Fancy Boys go backdoor-romancing all the ladies while Joey Testosterone goes off to war with all the other big boys. Just like WW II.
BTW, I'm adding the technical term " cuttlefish butt-babbeys" to my lexicon.
I'm almost positive they referred to them as "sperm-packets." If only David Attenborough had been narrating.
"Sperm-packets" will be how people will become inseminated on the Internet of the Future.
I think Margaret Atwood wrote about that kind of thing in "The Handmaid's Tale." (I've never read it, only heard about it during my college years.)
Since some have obviously mastered the marquee, how long before the cuttlefish have a NASCAR moment and start renting ad space?
Way ahead of you.
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