{"id":517269,"date":"2026-04-07T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:15:08","slug":"is-there-any-need-for-amputee-octopuses-brief-letters-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517269\/","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\/CBMid0FVX3lxTFBBZEZGamdkRDY0OWN3QTZVOEdvRGlJZGNSNktfU3hldm1CaEJLeWtlek5BT01rU2ZCNWNpYmUtekRMZC1IX2hWSkxEMjg2ZlhUUHp3U3VjYThTeGxvdUtfYUgtYmxhRlZNb3BjcUxGNVVjeFBIaGJR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The secrets of the sex lives of octopuses, revealed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixAFBVV95cUxNRHlpT1A4RmJiNDBCbWJreko4eGtoTUx0NFltMm12eFJ3aXRkbGNqTE9mT1lpYkJBOU1WNHNpLUJjS3BhRURlTnlfN2s2MmtXakxZRWhoYXE5X2RXVk5IcEVpblJjcGZON3haV2pnR3hTaF8tTEdYVk95bWFxcld0enkwMklZalNBRl9fNGVrR0N6MXBtc1JMUVU1UjJtUEVKS3k2WVJLQVNESE1qaEZ0amZnWC1neC1xTkZ6cmtXUHgwUVdT?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How octopuses have sex without even seeing each other<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Euronews.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMieEFVX3lxTE9wWDN3ZzJvdGJCbDJhckcydG4xVk9sMHhfZUQ3NElYS09fQjNqbVppN2h0Q2NiR3dRNU50bFNiTzZuU24wcHd4aFJmZzJWblFPSGNkU2hfSWxYb3BVeEdIYV9CdEd1N05RU29tbDVqSUk3Qk00TS00Rw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Male octopus has \u2018sex arm\u2019 that can mate in the dark<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;AOL.com<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 GuardianThe secrets of the sex lives of octopuses,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}