Having sex is exhausting!

By Matt Stansbery Posted Jul 18, 2012 06:02 PM

Tired after sex? Well, rest assured you’re not the only one. A recent study published in the journal Biology Letters has found squid suffer from the same loss of energy we do after mating.

Mating dumpling squids expend a lot of energy.

As we all know, reproductive activities take energy to conduct so it is no surprise that baseline swimming endurance were cut in half post-mating activities for both male and female squids. A loss of energy has significant impact on feeding, escaping predators, and finding more mates for a creature that already has a short lifespan. The southern dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica) were collected from Australia and studied to improve the understanding of reproductive behaviors with the cephalopods as a whole.

[via Yahoo News]