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Title: Wonderpus Mating. Bali, Indonesia.
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A pair of wunderpus octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) mating. The smaller male (left) is using his hectocotylus (third right arm) to reach inside the females mantle and place his sperm sac inside. This arm is visible coming up and over her arm in the foreground, before presumably entering her mantle cavity (out of sight). Seraya, Bali, Indonesia. Java Sea.
- Bali
- Cephalopods: Cephalopoda
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- Invertebrates
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- muck diving
- Octopus: Octopoda
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- SE Asia
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- South East Asia
- tropical
- wunderpus octopus: wonderpus: Wunderpus photogenicus
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