Top 10 Highly Unusual Animal Mating Rituals
0Have you ever gotten an email attachment of an animal doing something cute? Or found yourself watching countless videos of animals showing compassion to one another? As a result of these videos, many of us have come to see animals outside of their true nature. Survival in nature is not pretty, and, at times, the survival of a species is the result of a terribly gruesome or just plain bizarre process of reproduction.
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Source/Further reading:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/p/praying-mantis/
https://phys.org/news/2016-05-nursery-web-spiders-gift-potential.html
http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/qt/Honey-Bee-Mating.htm
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/12/sea-slugs-stab-mates-between-eyes-get-them-in-the-mood/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140626-snakes-narcisse-animals-mating-sex-animals-world/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/07/before-mating-the-female-giraffe-will-first-urinate-in-the-males-mouth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150129-why-do-birds-of-paradise-dance
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150213-animals-are-kinkier-than-you
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/9-of-the-most-bizarre-animal-mating-habits/white-fronted-parrot
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/july/cichlid-mating-research-061311.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Lions_and_a_Zebra_a.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Praying_mantis_india.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGuallLPcM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Praying_mantis_portrait_edit33.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/South_African_praying_mantis_eating_a_fly.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mantis_Tenodera_aridifolia01.jpg/1280px-Mantis_Tenodera_aridifolia01.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Mantis_religiosa_couple.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Praying_Mantis_Sexual_Cannibalism_European-35.jpg/1024px-Praying_Mantis_Sexual_Cannibalism_European-35.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Nursery_web_spider_1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1YZkCtLa4
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Giving_a_gift.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Honey_bee_%28Apis_mellifera%29.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/CSIRO_ScienceImage_80_A_Queen_Bee.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/CSIRO_ScienceImage_80_A_Queen_Bee.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW5bqaMOl0I