{"id":589591,"date":"2026-04-06T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:07:08","slug":"is-there-any-need-for-amputee-octopuses-brief-letters-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589591\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there any need for amputee octopuses? | Brief letters &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxPanA1N3hKb3ppdzFfRzF0NEFFM21ETjNraWVqU0pRZ0VfUFNYbXVVTVY1MnVDTXlINlN5RWZYbTE1UHBqZ0FFci1fRUsteWRuT2Y2emFGSl9uT0lhY2J5ak5GVG5sYzE4eHpuNDBIYVJCaTNUUmNLdXhHdlBmT1J5T256cldGci14anVGNzFB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is there any need for amputee octopuses? | Brief letters<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE1VbDk4THk4djF5a2VZaXlEMmNiVGVFZHJ1amd6V2hfTGNHbXQ0M0lTbm5WUElCVmJnZnpoeEZVZ2dqLWV3WFZQOWViWXVtUmVQNmx6djNPcjV2TVd0elA3TDF2TkpVNmxxbldtNFFPa1hFYW5zVGtpem95bw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inside the weird world of octopus sex as scientists find sensory arm that can deposit sperm<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Australia<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxOZUJtSXJTbUxaTmpiT0J3cVlETndXNnNNbno2ZnE3Ul9sYjBub0ZLdUMyUUk0WFBkdEFYRWwwVlVNNkh1MnRhd3J6NlIxWHhEby14ZEFNUmdJcVVkWVcwbTZUSVY0Ni1KR1NSbkhueFRyVWZXdDVDZTR3cGMxLTJhUWlfdEczSFBnWWFHbmM2ajhER2d5TGFiWg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sex at arm\u2019s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxQaFJ6VUtDMFhiWjBtSUc3MXdTTm1SMVJaZHI5dHdSdTJKMUlqeVlneVlOMTZVZGtzb2V0WnR6Slk3OUZXUndGTXM2LVVnMF9tOEZTZW14Y01CUzhSanZ2VXUzUHpTd2N5Q1U3ZDd0NTBCTVZKc1BEVk5ENXdyNGxrdGdTMW44WTNSZTB2YXBiaWJMNDFiNXhWbklveW1DQkV0cUkyYXJiM0RQR0hTRHg4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;New Scientist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is there any need for amputee octopuses? | Brief letters&nbsp;&nbsp;The GuardianInside the weird world of octopus sex as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-589591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}