26 Weird Animal Mating Habits
Featured 01/28/2014
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See some of the weird ways that earth's creatures make the "magic" happen.
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1. An octopus's penis breaks off during sex and grows back in time for the next mating season.
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2. Male hippopotami defecate while spinning their tails to splatter feces on and around the females (see associated, purposefully grainy GIF). This really gets female hippos in the mood.
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3. The manakin bird's mating dance includes a moonwalk.
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4. Male hooded seals attract mates by blowing large pink bubbles out of their noses.
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5. The Silverback gorilla has a 1.5 inch penis (~4 inches if measured from the tailbone).
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6. The male bowerbird builds a hut made of twigs and then decorates it with hundreds of items--all in coordinated colors. If the female likes the aesthetics of his bachelor pad, they mate there.
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7. bonobos use sex for mating as well as for resolving conflict, trading goods and favors, deciding social status, reducing stress, and just because.
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8. Elephants are only capable of getting pregnant every 4 to 9 years, and are pregnant for 22 months before giving birth. As a result, they usually only have one offspring in their lives.
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9. When a honeybee climaxes, his testicles explode and he dies.
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10. 16% of sexual encounters between praying mantises include the female eating the male's head during sex.
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11. Litters of kittens can contain all different types of kittens because the female cat can get pregnant while she's already pregnant.
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12. There are no male whiptail lizards. Whiptail lizards dry-hump each other to stimulate the production of eggs that are clones of themselves.
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13. The female anglerfish absorbs the mating male anglerfish into her body.
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14. Competition between male Galapagos giant tortoises over female affection consists solely of a height contest. The shorter male walks away sexually frustrated while the taller male will nip at the female's legs until she retracts them, rendering her immobile/mate-able.
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15. Worker ants are all female, but the queen ant needs sperm from a male to make another queen, so when it's time for a new queen she'll birth so many male ants that the females can't kill them all (though they'll try). The queen ant will then have incest with a surviving male, making a new baby queen (just like a real royal family).
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16. The female cichlid carries her eggs in her mouth until they hatch.
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17. Male argentine lake ducks have a (roughly) 17-inch, corkscrew-shaped penis that they sometimes use to lasso females trying to escape. And most duck mating is rape. And ducks are necrophiles. And cannibals.
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18. The male seahorse gives birth.
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19. When a male camel is ready to mate, he pukes up a pink sac (called a "doula") that hangs from the side of his mouth, and he begins to drool excessively. Female camels find this all very attractive.
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20. Flatworms have both male and female organs. When they mate, they "sword-fight" with their penises: The one that gets stabbed first has to be the mom.
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21. A dolphin's penis is retractable like turtle's head and prehensile like a human's thumb. They often use their penises to explore objects the way humans would use their hand.
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22. Male porcupines urinate on female porcupines before mating.
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23. Red-sided garter snakes mate through massive snake-bangs called "breeding balls" wherein one female takes on more than a hundred partners.
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24. Hermaphroditic sea hares mate in chains, acting as male to the one in front and female to the one in back.
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25. During mating, the male bedbug stabs his sabre-like penis through the female bedbug's abdomen. At one abusive relationship per season, you can tell how old a female bedbug is based on the number of scars on her abdomen.
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26. The male Darwin Frog incubates around 30 eggs in his mouth while they grow and hatch.
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