What animal has the weirdest mating ritual?

Praying mantis
Mating is a bit of an unfortunate activity for the male praying mantis that risks being eaten by the female! Having been lured to the female by pheromones, males may or may not get to mate before the female bites their head off; not all males are unlucky, some do get away uninjured.
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What animal has the longest mating ritual?

1. Brown antechinus. For two weeks every mating season, a male will mate as much as physically possible, sometimes having sex for up to 14 hours at a time, flitting from one female to the next.
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What is odd about the Kobs mating ritual?

Unlike other antelopes, kob males practice the art of courtship. The premating and postmating behavior of kobs is different from that of other antelopes. The male is not as rough with the female and does not attempt to force her to stay within his territory — rather, he appears to try gently to convince her.
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What male animal has to live inside the female to mate?

Angler Fish: The clingy boyfriend

Angler fish mating begins when the male angler fish literally sinks his teeth into the female. He attaches himself permanently and lives as a parasite on the female's larger body.
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Do all animals have a mating ritual?

Many species of animals engage in some type of courtship display to attract a mate, such as dancing, the creation of sounds, and physical displays. However, many species are not limited to only one of these behaviors.
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What animals mate face to face?

Bonobos are the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in tongue kissing. Bonobos and humans are the only primates to typically engage in face-to-face genital sex, although a pair of western gorillas has also been photographed in this position.
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Do animals consent to mating?

Sexual coercion has been observed in many species, including mammals, birds, insects, and fish. While sexual coercion does help increase male fitness, it is very often costly to females. Sexual coercion has been observed to have consequences, such as intersexual coevolution, speciation, and sexual dimorphism.
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Can humans breed with any other animals?

Probably not. Ethical considerations preclude definitive research on the subject, but it's safe to say that human DNA has become so different from that of other animals that interbreeding would likely be impossible.
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What happens if you put human sperm in an animal?

A half man/half dog wouldn't get very far past a single cell (assuming the egg and sperm could even come together!). This is because dogs and people have very different sets of instructions in their DNA. Their genomes are simply too different to come together and make something that will live.
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How is mating done in humans?

Sexual intercourse both culminates and terminates in orgasm, a process in which the male expels semen—containing sperm cells, which may unite with and fertilize the female's egg, and a seminal plasma that contains cell nutrients, water, salts, and metabolites—into the female's vaginal canal.
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How do humans mate?

It is an innate feature of human nature and may be related to the sex drive. The human mating process encompasses the social and cultural processes whereby one person may meet another to assess suitability, the courtship process and the process of forming an interpersonal relationship.
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How do Impala mate?

Mating and Reproduction

Older impala males stake out mating territories and herd groups of females that they jealously guard against any rivals. During this exhausting mating period, the male must fight off challengers, herd his females, and mate with them.
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Do male lions mate with their daughters?

A single male might often not be in control for long enough to mate with his grown daughters. Females do not only mate with the leader of their pride, but mate sometimes with males from outside of the pride.
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Can dog sperm penetrate human egg?

A human egg would not be fertilised by dog sperm if we tried. It would float up to the human egg, and then fail to attach to the Zona Pellucida, making it impossible to fertilise it.
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Which animal has the most sperm?

Among the largest ejaculates relative to body size belongs to the boar Sus scrofa. Lüpold said that males of this boar "seem to produce ejaculates of over 50 billion sperm, which is well over 100 times a human ejaculate." European hare males also have some of the greatest sperm numbers relative to their body size.
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Can a dog mate with a monkey?

Mammalian Hybrids

Monkeys have been observed mating with a wide variety of other types of animals, including dogs, a fact well attested by videos on YouTube and by information presented in the pages on primate hybridization on this website.
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Can a pig and dog have babies?

Reports about pig-dog hybrids are not abundant. Indeed, claims that other bizarre crosses involving dogs (e.g., dog-cow hybrids or human-dog hybrids) or pigs (e.g., pig-human hybrids) are quite a bit more common. Some reports about this type of cross do, however, exist.
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How do lion prides avoid incest?

In lions, prides are often followed by related males in bachelor groups. When the dominant male is killed or driven off by one of these bachelors, a father may be replaced by his son. There is no mechanism for preventing inbreeding or to ensure outcrossing. In the prides, most lionesses are related to one another.
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Why do female lions roll over after mating?

After mating, the female very often rolls over onto her back and sometimes rubs herself against the male. As the number of matings increases the first male eventually becomes exhausted and the female then quickly switches to another of the pride males who has been waiting patiently in the wings. The show must go on.
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Why do lions bite when they mate?

Lions are the only cat species that mate face-to-face, and they often bite each other on the neck. The reason for this unusual behavior is unknown. One theory states that lions evolved to mate in such a way as to make it difficult for another lion to interrupt them during mating, but some experts disagree.
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What is a female impala called?

Female impala, called ewes, have no horns. But males, the rams, grow curved horns with a notable twisted appearance due to ridges. These horns are black and grow as long as 36 inches. Males measure between 30 and 36 inches tall from their hooves to their shoulders.
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What eats a cheetah?

Lions, leopards, and hyenas will try to prey upon cheetah, particularly cheetah cubs. Because they are so fast, adult cheetahs are difficult to catch.
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Can a human be in heat?

Females of most vertebrate species exhibit recurring periods of heightened sexual activity in which they are sexually attractive, proceptive and receptive to males. In mammalian females (except Old World monkeys, apes and humans), this periodic sex appeal is referred to as 'heat' or 'estrus'.
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