Their digestive tract fuses shut as sexual maturity
Its a darwinian failure (or success) because it cant be weeded out by selective pressures since it happens after reproduction
Its a darwinian failure (or success) because it cant be weeded out by selective pressures since it happens after reproduction
if there was a population that didn't starve after sex, they might out-compete a population that did, say, by passing on learned behavior to their offspring
Perhaps if they evolved a stage where the tiny things latched onto the parent for protection from being food, and lived off the parent, then the parent might evolve to produce an edible skin (for tiny octopus) and hang around longer
We’re lucky they die so young