And you thought human dating was complicated! #TEDTalks

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0:00Squids have an extremely complex,

0:03interesting sex life. Here you see a

0:05male and a female. The male on the left

0:07has been fighting off other males

0:08through pair with the female. And now

0:10he's showing a dual pattern. He shows

0:12courtship and loved on her side,

0:13fighting on the other. Watch him when

0:15she shifts places. And you see that he

0:18has fluidly changed the love courtship

0:20pattern to the side of the female. So

0:22this kind of dual signaling

0:23simultaneously with a changing

0:25behavioral context is really

0:26extraordinary. Takes a lot of brain