Toadfish Monastery

Do you think he saw it coming?

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Last _{Can we dedicate this week's Friday Cephalopods to him} Post?

Last _{I think you mean, how can we not?} Post!

I think there is a commemorative video about him on Youtube but I have not checked yet.

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Lots of videos on youtube on the event. Speculations who did it. Proposed recipes. Currently the mortal remains are on ice and a cremation is planned for the near future.
A successor has been named (Paul) but prophetic abilities not yet tested.

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The short life of cephalopods is one of those things that pushes the understanding of intelligence (why waste so much energy on brains when you're only expected to live ~2 years?).

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The giant ones grow as long as they live. Imagine an architeuthis livinh 80 years

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Perhaps they can but the environment kills them earlier.

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The female ones die almost immediately after their offspring has hatched.

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Then how do they get to be bigger than the males?

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I might be wrong but iirc the males die after mating (spawning).

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If males are just a sperm-sack, there's no point in competing for food with one's potential mates.  Smaller males are common in many species. 

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They follow biblical prescription to the letter by literally becoming one flesh (and it being the male that attaches itself to the female*)

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*'...and shall cleave unto his wife...'