26 Weird Animal Mating Habits
Infantgenius
Published
01/28/2014
in
Funny
See some of the weird ways that earth's creatures make the "magic" happen.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
Advertisement
-
1.
An octopus's penis breaks off during sex and grows back in time for the next mating season. -
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. -
3.
The manakin bird's mating dance includes a moonwalk. -
4.
Male hooded seals attract mates by blowing large pink bubbles out of their noses. -
5.
The Silverback gorilla has a 1.5 inch penis (~4 inches if measured from the tailbone). -
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. -
7.
bonobos use sex for mating as well as for resolving conflict, trading goods and favors, deciding social status, reducing stress, and just because. -
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. -
9.
When a honeybee climaxes, his testicles explode and he dies. -
10.
16% of sexual encounters between praying mantises include the female eating the male's head during sex. -
11.
Litters of kittens can contain all different types of kittens because the female cat can get pregnant while she's already pregnant. -
12.
There are no male whiptail lizards. Whiptail lizards dry-hump each other to stimulate the production of eggs that are clones of themselves. -
13.
The female anglerfish absorbs the mating male anglerfish into her body. -
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. -
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). -
16.
The female cichlid carries her eggs in her mouth until they hatch. -
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. -
18.
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. -
19.
The male seahorse gives birth. -
20.
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. -
21.
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. -
22.
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. -
23.
Male porcupines urinate on female porcupines before mating. -
24.
Red-sided garter snakes mate through massive snake-bangs called "breeding balls" wherein one female takes on more than a hundred partners. -
25.
Hermaphroditic sea hares mate in chains, acting as male to the one in front and female to the one in back. -
26.
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. -
27.
The male Darwin Frog incubates around 30 eggs in his mouth while they grow and hatch.
53 Comments