Nothing kills romance quite like the threat of cannibalism.
The Seattle Aquarium reportedly nixed its annual Valentine's Day tradition, a public mating session of octopuses, after fears that one 70-pound octopus was poised to eat his mate.
The aquarium couldn't find a female octopus big enough for Kong, KOMO News reports. Kong, a cephalopod, dwarves females of his kind by 30 to 40 pounds.
Kong's public feasting on a potential mate would not have fit the bill for the Valentine's event, advertised as an "octopus blind date." And so the aquarium called the session off.
That's perhaps just as well for both parties: Octopuses die after mating.
Instead, Kong was scheduled to be released Monday back into the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Seattle.
May love find you, Kong, in time.
