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Today you learn about how some male cuddle fish cross-dress to woo the ladies.

You'll also learn how to persuade people in a world where facts

don't seem to matter from author Lee Hartley Carter. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Here's something you might not expect from the animal kingdom. One way that male cuttlefish attract mates

is by, for all intents and purposes, cross-dressing. Welcome to the gender-bending world of

cuttlefish courtship. First for a quick refresher,

cuttlefish are kind of like octopuses because they're cephalopods. But cuttlefish's

bodies are shaped like arrowheads, although they still have tentacles,

and just happen to be shorter,

and they can change colors, like octopuses.

Every winter, about a quarter million giant Australian cuddlefish

get together off the south coast of Australia in a tiny spot

about the size of 10 soccer fields. And the reason? Basically a giant tinder meetup.

At this sub-aquatic singles mixer,

males outnumber females by an average of 4-1,

although some scientists cite this figure as being as high as 11 to 1. I don't like those odds.

And because competition is so fierce, the bigger and stronger kuddle fish tend to fight off

their weaker competitors to corner the most desirable females and pressure them to hang around.

Which brings us to the cross-dressing.

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