Guess the species….
1)The male’s genitals explode and snap off inside the female, this is apparently evolutionary feature that prevents further copulation.
2)They are hermaphrodites (they have both male and female sexual organs). In this case, the male organ turns out to be two dagger-like penises that they use to hunt as well as mate. During mating, two of them fight (i.e. “penis fence”) to stab each other, while avoiding getting stabbed. The “loser” who gets stabbed will absorb the sperm through its skin and then scoots off to bear the burden of motherhood!
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Strange Fact 1. The annual mating of THEM is a tourist attraction in Manitoba, Canada. That’s because when a female emerges from hibernation, she releases a pheromone that attracts hundreds of males in the vicinity to rush her and create a large squirming “mating ball.”
Strange Fact 2. Like many others of there kind, the male has two penises, called “hemipenes,” on each side of its body. The male will try to use the best-positioned penis to mate with the female in the center of the mating ball.
Strange Fact 3. As if the two facts above aren’t strange enough, turns out there is a “she-male” who releases pheromones just like the females do (and fools hundreds of other males to pile up on him/her). Why? Scientists think that this gives the she-male warmth and protection (and attention, too, I’m sure).
4) Males have a ravenous sexual appetite: they often try to hump inanimate objects and even other animals like sea turtles. (Zeus, GAP and other proper nouns will not be accepted)
5) Here’s chivalry for you: the males don’t even bother with the female’s sex organs. Instead, a male uses its scimitar-like sexual organ to impale the female’s body and deposit his sperm!
Scientists even have a cute name for this sort of thing: “traumatic insemination.” Ouch!
6) The male releases its sperms on small twigs or stalks in what scientists call the “love garden”, then lays down an intricate silken trail to the spot. When a female stumbles upon this trail, she will follow it to seek out the “artist”. If she likes his work, then she will sit on the sperm.
However, if another male spots the garden, he will trash it and lay his own instead!
7) Males will pay (in form of fruits) to get a peek at the hind quarters of a female.
Actually, that’s not all: they will also pay to gaze at pictures of dominant “celebrities” (i.e. the high-ranking males) in their pack. Huh.
Anyways, if that isn’t enough bad behavior for you, think about this: males will attack their enemy when he is at his weakest: during orgasm.
The male argonaut produces a ball of spermatozoa in a special tentacle called a hectocotylus . When meeting a female it fancies, the male then detaches its penis to swim by itself to the female!
9)There are no males – all are females, so they can’t have sex at all. Wait a minute – so how do they reproduce? By cloning themselves:
Reproduction is preceeded by pseudocopulation, where two females act out the roles of a male mounting a female (they switch roles later on).
Apparently, this is required to stimulate egg production in both. When the eggs hatch, they will be all-female clones of the mother.
10)The males are born sexually mature. In fact, they will immediately grab and mate with their sister within minutes of her birth.
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