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The male octopus penis is called a hectocotylus. It is typically the third tentacle and holds rows of sperm. After copulation, the hectocotylus breaks off and grows back over time. The female cares for her eggs until they hatch, she will not feed the entire three months and typically dies when the young are born. The female can lay 20,000 to 100,000 eggs at a time. Copulation varies among species, some females break off the hectocotylus and save it for later, and some the males break it off, handing it over to the female to use as she wishes.
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bcbooks 8 years ago
I enjoyed this very good presentation about the octopus. However, I wanted to point out to Tara and to anyone else viewing this that the Pacific Northwest tree octopus DOES NOT exist. It was an internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato and continues to be perpetuated by him and many unsuspecting victims. One very well written article on the matter is "Tentacled Tree Hugger Disarms Seventh Graders" written by Matthew Bettelheim, March 14, 2007. That article was published by Inkling Magazine.com and can be found at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070320203138/http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/tentacled-tree-hugger-gets-legs-up-on-twelve-year-olds/ If you do your research, you can find plenty of other corroborating evidence of this hoax.