• NannerBanner@literature.cafeEnglish
    32·
    19 hours ago

    It’s been a long time since I studied octopus anatomy (well, it was really just an overview of the [three?] cephalopods), but don’t they have eight arms, of which only one has the sperm tube? So it’s not like they have a ‘favorite’ arm, it’s just the one arm that can do it, so it’s their favorite arm.

    post search: Yeah, it’s called a hectocotylus.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      20·
      16 hours ago

      Wait a minute… One octopus arm is actually a dick…? Excuse me what how what I since when how did the fuck what

      Edit:

      Jesus fucking Christ what in the

      Depending on the species, the male may use it merely as a conduit to the female, analogously to a penis in other animals, or he may wrench it off and present it to the female.

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafeEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        That last one really gets down to rituals some in the human world partake in. Never been a big proponent of CBT myself (it is too easily used to lead astray folks into things like ABA without empathy or little sheldons thinking they’re so smart for trying to shape another), but if the mentality is present in multiple species, maybe there’s something to it.

  • Mistress Remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    So for us it’s lefty or righty (lefty here, though I’m right-handed), but for them it’s one through eight…

    “Hnnnggg, I love #6 she’s my girlfriend on lonely nights”

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Nah, use whichever one is closest to her and closest to where it needs to be in the moment, or switch off if one gets sore.

    (I’m not fully ambidextrous (my left hand writing sucks), but this is one of the good skills to be ambidextrous in)

    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafeEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Thats because it takes years of practice to get the motor skills for writing trained, remember how bad you were in kindergarten at writing ? If you practised with your left your writing would improve.

      Out of curiousity (because I’ve not met another ambi in real life) do you also have things you do left handed and things right ? I play tennis left handed and write right handed for example.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        A lot of people have mixed-handedness, to varying degrees. I am 100% right-handed, except that I write with my left. I can’t do anything else left-handed, and I can’t write or draw right-handed. People see me writing and call me a a Lefty, but I’m really not, I just write Lefty.

      • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        I can eat “properly” with a fork in my left and knife in my right or the other way around and that didn’t take any effort to learn I just could do it.

        I’m also a pretty good marksman with either hand/stance.

        I kind of prefer using my left hand for drinks or eating snacks, but that is likely due to me working/gaming on my computer while doing so.

        When I’d play baseball I preferred throwing lefty, but that was a long time ago and I definitely default to my right hand for most things nowadays. Or whatever hand is free.

        Like on the bus if the nearest handhold is on my right, I’ll hold it with my right, and then like switch my phone to my left pocket so I can reach it with my left hand easily if I want to scroll memes or text etc. while my right hand is busy.

        I will say that I tried drawing with my left hand not so long ago and for the rest of the day I kept getting tripped up, like my mind couldn’t decide what hand to use to open doors or grab things so I’d get up to do something and then freeze up lol. Weird stuff

        My drawing did kind of just improve from that one try though because yesterday I decided to try again and I was much more capable of drawing precisely. Still a little shaky but not too bad.

        Oh and a few of my family members definitely are preferential for different hands in different tasks, and oddly enough I think tennis is one of them. I know there are more but I can’t remember which other ones they’ve mentioned. Skateboarding with non dominant leg is one but I think that’s a common thing.

        Also I really just hate writing with my left hand because everything smudges, and I’m not at the level of DeVinci where I can just flat out write in reverse lol