This week is the final episode of this series of The Prompt on RTÉ Radio 1, where presenter Zoë Comyns is joined by a well-known Irish writer, and listeners hear the guest writer's selection of new ...

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A male blue-lined octopus often becomes their partner's meal after mating but the University of Queensland's Fabio Cortesi tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe some males have found a way to survive.

It has been discovered that males of the Blue-lined Octopus inject tetrodotoxin into the bodies of larger females to immobilize them during mating in order to avoid being eaten by them.

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study.