Fearing Cannibalism, Aquarium Cancels Octopus Sex Show on Valentine’s Day

At the Seattle Aquarium , the annual tradition of watching alive octopuses bone on Valentine ’s Day was canceled last dark . Why ? Cannibalism concerns , of course .

The aquarium staff was disturbed that the huge male person scheduled for sex was so Brobdingnagian that he would simply pig the female person . Which is funny sincetypicallyit ’s the expectant distaff octopus that strangles and eats the male after copulation . Seattle ABC affiliate KOMOreportsthat the yearly display of “ 8 - armed nooky ” was visit off because the Seattle Aquarium ’s 80 - pound male person octopus list Kong was too big a partner for the 30- to 40 - Lebanese pound female . Kong could ’ve easily eaten a female one-half his sizing , and nobody wanted to observe that sort of octopus - on - devilfish slaughter .

The Seattle Aquarium is the same place where an octopus made an attempted jailbreak for it by scale the side of its uncovered holding cell last year . Pacific Northwest cephalopod are apparently full loose cannons .