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Title: Cuttlefish Mating Behaviour. Devon, UK.
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A male common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) closely guards his mate (left), caressing her with his tentacles as he displays to a rival male in the background, even extending his one of his tentacles. Photographed during courtship season in May. Babbacombe Devon, England, British Isles. Tor Bay, English Channel.
- Alex Mustard/2020VISION
- Babbacombe
- British Isles
- Cephalopods: Cephalopoda
- common cuttlefish: Sepia officinalis
- Cuttlefish: Sepiida
- Devon
- England
- Great Britain
- Invertebrates
- marine
- Marine Life
- Mollusks: Mollusca
- reprodcution
- reproduction
- Sepia officinalis
- Sepiidae
- sex
- temperate
- Torbay
- UK
- United Kingdom
- wide angle
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