Mate Males facts
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Breeding panda bears is extremely hard and requires a global cooperation because more than half of male pandas exhibit no sexual drive and female pandas are fertile only up to three days a year. One of the methods to encourage the mating pandas is "panda porn".
A zoo in Japan once spent four years trying to mate a pair of hyenas before realizing they were both males, due to how similar a female pseudo penis is to a real one.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Mate Males I managed to collect.
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When Male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen's nuptial flight, she'll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of their dead, penisless corpses in her wake.
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Female fish can fake an orgasm to trick the male into thinking they've successfully mated and swim off to find a better partner.
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Cardinal birds are romantic; they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, the male feeds seed to the female beak-to-beak.
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To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
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The oldest living terrestrial animal, a 186-year old giant tortoise called Jonathan, has been mating with a female giant tortoise called Frederica since 1991...who, it turns out, was actually a male all along.
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When a drone bee mates with the queen, his orgasm is so powerful it causes his genitals to explode, killing the male and leaving his penis inside the queen. The explosion is so powerful, it's audible to human ears.
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Scientists in Florida plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. The males still mate with females, but the hatchlings die before adulthood due to the presence of the new genes.
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Male spiders give female spiders gifts of prey wrapped in silk to increase mating success. Wrapping the gift in silk prevents the female from stealing it without copulating and sometimes conceals that the gift is just random trash.
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Since many female insects mate just once in their lives, insect populations can be controlled by releasing swarms of sterile males into the wild; the females mate with them, never have babies, and die. The method has eradicated populations of dangerous insects in several regions.
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A Japanese zoo unsuccessfully tried to mate a pair of hyenas for four years before realizing both were males.
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When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever. If a male finds a female, he latches on and fuses to her, losing his internal organs until they share a bloodstream.
When male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen's nuptial flight, she'll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of dead, penisless bees in her wake. - source
Gray whales mate in threes; the non-dominant male just acts as a brace to hold the female in place so that she doesn't float away. - source
Ducks penises explode outward, have spikes on them, shapeshift, fall off after every mating season, and can grow back longer if there are more males around
Male Billy Goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season - source
Given a choice between alcohol-soaked food and normal food, male fruit flies that have recently been sexually-rejected by females will consume four times more alcohol-soaked food than the males that mated successfully.
Before Mating, the Female Giraffe Will First Urinate in the Male's Mouth
In Tasmanian Devilmating season, the male has to beat the female into submission if he wants to mate. If the male is too timid the female proceeds to beat up the male.
When hummingbirds reach puberty, the males’ beaks grow longer and sharper. They use them to stab other males in the throat to secure mating spots.
Sea otters with pink noses are females. Otters mate in the water, and males bite the females on the nose and face to hold them in position...so scar tissue turns the females' noses pink.
The last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It's song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well.
