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   Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 22:49:53 JST Vagina Museum

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   Here they are. We knew you'd want to see it.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 22:49:54 JST Vagina Museum

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     In the case of Stack, Krannichfeld and Romano's paper on humpback sex, it was very exciting to catch them in the act. It's even rare to get a photo of a humpback whale penis, as the penis is usually kept within the body and only extruded when it's in use.

     The observed humpback sex involved one male inserting his extruded penis into the genital slit - where the penis is usually kept - of the other whale.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 22:49:55 JST Vagina Museum

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     It's incredibly difficult to photograph sea animals doing anything, because the sea is very big and many animals have a habit of doing it underwater. However, what we do know based on observation and footage is that same sex encounters are pretty common in Davy Jones's Locker.

     Marine same sex behaviour has been documented in animals such as walruses, whales, and dolphins. Female bottlenose dolphins sometimes do it with each other by using their bottle-shaped nose as a dildo.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 22:49:56 JST Vagina Museum

     Last month, a ground-breaking paper was published documenting the first time ever that humpback whales had been photographed having sex.

     Both of the whales were male.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 23:01:44 JST Vagina Museum

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     If you're wondering how the sex worked, the smaller male inserted his hectocotylus (a modified tentacle for delivering sperm) into the larger octopus's mantle aperture. For this specific context, we can call that aperture the octobussy.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 23:01:45 JST Vagina Museum

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     The 16 minutes of footage depicted courtship and copulation between the two octopuses. Both octopuses were male. And they were of entirely different species, with quite a drastic size difference. One octopus was 38cm long and white. The other was 180cm long and a brownish colour. The smaller octopus was topping.

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     Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 23:01:47 JST Vagina Museum

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     Now, the fun thing is that this isn't even the first time that scientists have managed to get some game-changing footage of sea animal mating behaviour which turned out to be gay. Let's take you back to 1994, 2500 meters deep.

     Deep sea octopuses are even harder to film and photograph than whales, because they live so far underwater. In 1994, Lutz and Voight reported on an incredible 16 minutes of footage captured of two deep sea octopuses. Even getting this much footage is an achievement

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     Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 23:01:49 JST Bethany Black

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     @vagina_museum brava