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For my animal reproduction course I have to write 5000 words on....yup you guessed it, animal reproduction. Specifically reproduction of one species

So I need ideas. Any animals with interesting or specific reproductive habits, from pre-mating behaviour right up to giving birth. Also no birds (unless really interesting) or marsupials (my lecturer knows way too much about them).

Thanks in advance
>> Anonymous
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LOL HORSES
>> Anonymous
there's an entire course on animal reproduction? that surprises me
>> Anonymous
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Hyenas are the most interesting I can think of off the top of my head. Let's see if I can remember some of the important points..

Females are in charge, big time. So they've all got these gigantic hanging clits, right? Mating's obviously complicated here since the male has to get his dick up inside it. Then, a ton of females don't survive their first birthing because the pup has to come out through their pseudo-dick which usually results in tearing, bleeding, complications, etc.

One of the best, by far!
>> Anonymous
do it on the homosexual necrophilia rapeducks.
>> Anonymous
do it on dogs because their penises are weird
>> Anonymous
Porcupines
>> Anonymous
i've heard pigs have curly penises in addition to their curly tails.
>> Anonymous
Hyenas are interesting, do them.

Or for something weird, do your paper on Giant Squid, the pedophiles of the animal kingdom. Since there are so few giant squid, if a male comes upon a female, they mate, and if the female is underaged for mating, then the male just sticks his sperm sack into one of her tentacles, where she keeps it until she is old enough to be fertilized.
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>>237811
Maybe I should have said subject? There is an animal production course at my uni, but thats not what I'm studying.

>>237815
Hyenas are awesome, but we got given an example past assignment to do with them. So cant do that.

>>237837
Giant squids sound good, just depends if I can find enough info.

Keep the ideas coming =)
>> Anonymous
Those anglerfish are pretty cool if you haven't covered them yet. Something like the males are these tiny things that are basically parasites, attaching themselves to the females' bodies.
>> Anonymous
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/K/kamasutra/index.html

You might be able to find something interesting thar? I saw the series ages ago, but all I remember is that banana slugs are hermaphrodites and eat their/their partners penis. Or something like that..
>> Anonymous
Even though you don't want birds, bower birds are very quirky and funny in their mating behavior. To attract the females, they build structures out of blue things - that has to be the same shade.. The females will make their rounds and inspect the shiny blue baubles before choosing a mate.

There was an issue of National Geographic with the title "Animal Attraction" about different animals. May want to try looking it up.
>> How about cross species matings freude
You could an in depth series on contributing and mitigating factors.
Physical attraction, pair bonding, pheremone, scent and influences libido.
The physical mechanics of cross species sex, risk factors and injury / death failures. The internet is repleate with humor esc pictures of cross species mating, (In my personal file 42 matings and 140 pair bonds with crosses between domestic and wild species).
I'd like to see a report like that.
>> Anonymous
>>237856
seconed,when i heard this shit i flipped ...crazy shit...
"Some anglerfishes of the superfamily Ceratiidae employ an unusual mating method. Since individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of male ceratioids.

At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When it is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish or else dying. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[2]

The spawn of the anglerfish of the genus Lophius consists of a thin sheet of transparent gelatinous material 2 or 3 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet long. The eggs in this sheet are in a single layer, each in its own little cavity. The spawn is free in the sea. The larvae are free-swimming and have the pelvic fins elongated into filaments. Such an egg sheet is rare in fishes."
>> Anonymous
>>237909
Heh, constant sex.
>> Anonymous
dolphins have a pretty kinkey sex life
>> Anonymous
african bat bugs perform "traumatic insemination."
you love it.
>> Anonymous
>>237807
Well its mostly a bird thing, but you could talk about the lek system. it's pretty interesting stuff. It's basically what>>237873described. This is just the technical term describing it. Also I agree with>>237815
Hyenas are pretty interesting with their pseudo-penis and how they have alpha females. ummmmm.... i'm trying to think back to animap physiology or animal behaviour but I can't remember anymore interesting ones at the moment.
>> Anonymous
>>237807
you could talk aobut any animals that practice polygyny or polyandry, tons of birds do that, and if you are doing birds there's all sorts of interesting things. You could talk about mating rituals such as the lek system, you could talk aobut mating calls, you could talk about which parent raises the child (in many bird species its the male) you could talk about a species such as the brown headed cowbird which lays its eggs in a different birds nest to let them raise it. there's hella lots to talk about for bird reproduction. If you can you should take a look at the text book Animal behaviour: an evolutionary approach by John Alcock, lots of interesting stuff there.
>> Anonymous
hows about flies. some flies rape eachother. sometimes the males even kill the females.
>> Anonymous
Male dolphins will occasionally gangrape a female dolphin to death.

There's some kind of hermaphroditic sea slug or snail that pairs up with a mate and then has a fucking swordfight with its penis against the other one. Loser submit to being the female in the relationship.
>> Anonymous
If I remember correctly, there's a type of fish (or something that lives in the water) where the male actually attaches itself to the female and become a part of her for the rest of their lives!
>> noko
you should write about zoophilia and bestiality. make sure you're really enthusiastic and positive about dogfucking!
>> Anonymous
>>238028
see
>>237856
>>237909
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/episodes/hunt_explo2.html

PENIS FENCING FLATWORMS
>> Anonymous
many animals have specialized sperm..some of them swim in circles to block potential future sperm from a competitor, some fuse and form a blockade, some dive bomb other sperm and use their enzymes to kill it..weird stuff
>> Anonymous
SLUGS ARE FUCKING WEIRD.
THEY ARE FUCKING WEIRD.
FUCK.
>> Anonymous
What about the platypus ? I heard they got something like 5 sexual chromosomes, that's pretty strange.. And i never saw two platypus copulating, i wonder what it looks like..
>> Anonymous
How about humans?

Their mating methods include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool.

Also copulation may or may not be related to reproduction. In most cases people copulate for pleasure; this behaviour is also seen in some animal species, for example chimpanzees and especially bonobos are known to copulate when the female is not fertile, presumably for pleasure, which in turn strengthens social bonds.

The best age to become pregnant is from 14 to 28 years old but many females seems to choose to reproduce later.
>> Anonymous
>>238667
I feel stupid for not thinking about that. Gonna see if i can get approval for it.
>> Anonymous
how bout Dogs~ they screw their moms and sisters without feeling any guilt
>> Anonymous
dolphins have s-shaped peni. try that.
>> Anonymous
Horse Shoe Crabs. I don't remember why their mating habits were weird, but they were.
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Moon Wrasse. They change sex TWICE during their lifetimes. They go from male to female to male... weird