Weird animal sex.

[Thaluikhain]

You know, showing how long I've been on this forum, but this thread makes me remember Danyal.

 

[09philj]

So strange just how many creatures just die after breeding, as if that was the entire purpose to their existence. Seems so pointless.

If offspring do not require parental care then they will end up competing with their parents.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

I'm sure there's a fly out there that, for whatever reason, has a sperm that is longer than the fly itself is. The females of the species have to have labyrinthine coiled reproductive systems to fit it inside them

 

[Drathnoxis]

So strange just how many creatures just die after breeding, as if that was the entire purpose to their existence. Seems so pointless.

Breeding IS the point. If they die after breeding, for them its not pointless at all. It's mission accomplished.

But like, hmmm, this is hard to explain, but if their whole purpose is to breed so that their kids can breed so that their kids can breed so that their kids can breed... etc. it's like an infinite loop where nothing is accomplished because you're always chasing that one goal that keeps shifting as soon as you achieve it.

So strange just how many creatures just die after breeding, as if that was the entire purpose to their existence. Seems so pointless.

If offspring do not require parental care then they will end up competing with their parents.

Hmm, I suppose so.

 

[gorfias]

Can't be too easy for Porcupines
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/02/how-porcupines-mate/

 

[Drathnoxis]

Can't be too easy for Porcupines
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/02/how-porcupines-mate/

Golden showers, weird.

 

[Basement Cat]

LOL.

You had the Big Boss on Staff worried about this thread. Keep it on Topic and it's alright. So far. LOL.

You know, showing how long I've been on this forum, but this thread makes me remember Danyal.

Me, too, Thaluikhain! I was thinking the very same thing.

My contribution to this thread.

 

[Drathnoxis]

LOL.

You had the Big Boss on Staff worried about this thread. Keep it on Topic and it's alright. So far. LOL.

You know, showing how long I've been on this forum, but this thread makes me remember Danyal.

Me, too, Thaluikhain! I was thinking the very same thing.

My contribution to this thread.

That sounds like a risky game to play considering she'd probably end the relationship by eating him if she can.

 

[Agema]

Bed Bugs: The penis is very hard and sharp. The females have some protection for the insertion of the male's instrument but if a male accidentally tries to mate with another male it can impale and kill it's mate.

Don't give society's residual homophobes ideas.

 

[Samos205]

Honey Bees: Unfertilized eggs produce males and fertilized eggs produce females. Males are called drones and do not have stingers, collect nectar, make honey, or do anything really. Their job is to mate with the queen. During mating their penis explodes and is forced up the queens vagina. Apparently this is audible to humans. The drone then dies. During winter the workers(females) will place excess drones outside the nest to freeze to death to conserve food.

If memory serves correctly, its a popping sound that it makes

 

[gorfias]

Can't be too easy for Porcupines
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/02/how-porcupines-mate/

Golden showers, weird.

Can you imagine if they ever evolve into human like creatures? I'm sure they'll have interesting lawsuits after they develop courts.

That sounds like a risky game to play considering she'd probably end the relationship by eating him if she can.

I heard it posited that the female kills and eats the male to protect her lineage from too little genetic diversity. He can't mate again if he's dead. Again... think of the future court cases 40 million years from now!