Unusual octopus sex session captured in rare and comical footage

A young male octopus gets comically dragged around the ocean floor mid-sex by an impatient female in rare new footage.

The female is receptive, so he extends his specialized mating arm, known as a hectocotylus, and awkwardly attempts to find her mantle cavity — a muscular structure containing the vital organs, where sperm is deposited during mating. But he appears to take too long, and the female gets"impatient and hungry," series narrator Paul Rudd says in the footage.

Most octopuses live solitary lives, only coming together to mate, but the algae octopuses in the new series were surprisingly social, Geiger said.

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