<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1358px-Hapalochlaena_fasciata_Toba3.jpg” alt=”During sex, the male octopus immobilized the female with poison to avoid death”/>Octopuses are antisocial creatures by nature. But when it comes to reproduction, a very intimate and at the same time dangerous rapprochement occurs between the male and the female, during which the “lady” can eat the “suitor”. Evolution has given males of some species special rescue mechanisms to avoid a tragic fate. Recently, teuthologists from Australia described one of these mechanisms.