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[โ€“] [email protected] 146 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No one tells you that male rats and mice find certain substrates very erotic. Like a mesh floor, or warm plexiglas. They will rub, groom, and nibble until they ejaculate while you are habituating and testing them, with certain drugs increasing the frequency of these events (morphine for example). So every once in a while I go 'I'm scrubbing rat cum off the mesh floor for money, again'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago

๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿ“ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Ah, that was me in grad school. Hell, technically I paid them for the privilege.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

God, I'm so glad Jon Oliver finally joined the Fediverse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You haven't known love until a rat ejaculates on your finger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'sup

Any plans this weekend?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I do now ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

'I'm scrubbing rat cum off the mesh floor for money, again'.

Action Bronson line

[โ€“] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That is either a very strange mating ritual, or that cuttlefish is a narcissist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cuttlefish encounter other cuttlefish so rarely, it's always a good idea to squeeze one out just in case it happens to be a female.

[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

That makes a weird kind of sense. It was moreso the sixteen minutes that threw me, all I could picture was two of them having a staring contest for 16 minutes and then suddenly sperm and eggs everywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

$ on its the of cuttlefish

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

In his mouth?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me"

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Squid fucks weird

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last time I did that, I got arrested.

Here I was, trying to contribute to science and, it's all "indecent exposure", and "this is a public pool, there's no cuttlefish for you to impregnate". Sheesh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

All I'm saying is those blind kids didn't even see me coming.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I've done that.

I don't have any animals...

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Something something Octopussy

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This guy is admin and regular uploader at CephaloHub... :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Sudden prevalence of hand mirrors at the local aquarium...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Does that mean it's going to die now, or does that not happen in cuttlefish?