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animals that are totally effing sweet

grumblesgrumbles Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Social Entropy++
Please discuss animals that are totally awesome and bizarre and cool. I will begin.

Let me tell you about something called the Great Grey Slug. In particular, let me tell you about its mating rituals.

Great Grey slugs are hermaphrodites--i.e., when mating, they both impregnate and are impregnated.

In order to do so, the slugs lower themselves down from a higher horizontal surface on a string of mucus. Once they are dangling, they curl around each other, double-helix style. I guess this is the slug version of spooning. Then, they both unsheathe their translucent, prehensile penises from an opening on the right side of their head called a gonophore. They entwine their penises and exchange sperm. Later, they both lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs.

Sometimes? In the heat of the moment, their penises can become tangled, so that they cannot get loose. If this happens, the slugs will engage in something apophallation--they will chew each other's penises off in order to get free, leaving themselves with only female sexual organs.

Video of the act, spoilered because of the potential for what is essentially slug pornography to be considered NSFW in some jurisdictions:


(Happy Christmas, Joe)

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    this is going to be the best thread

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    Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Neal Asher is probably making some monstrosity for his next book because of those animals.

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    well now

    learned something new about animal sex while browsing SE++

    not wholly unexpected

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fuck me i love and hate this thread already

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    an alarming amount of mating in the animal kingdom is based around rape

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Pangolins are really awesome

    it's like God took a lizard and an armadillo and slapped them together

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
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    Man they are just so cute

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    I am actually reading a pretty decent book about spiders and interestingly there are actually a few species of spiders that are highly social, building communal webs, tackling prey together, and sharing the prey as well as caring for young as a group

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Pony wrote: »
    an alarming amount of mating in the animal kingdom is based around rape

    rape is natural

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    sharks are just such optimized killing machines it is ridiculous

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I am actually reading a pretty decent book about spiders and interestingly there are actually a few species of spiders that are highly social, building communal webs, tackling prey together, and sharing the prey as well as caring for young as a group

    yes because i don't need anymore nightmares dru thanks a bunch

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    5 star thread

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I am actually reading a pretty decent book about spiders and interestingly there are actually a few species of spiders that are highly social, building communal webs, tackling prey together, and sharing the prey as well as caring for young as a group

    and then the bigger female grabs the male, tears his legs off, poisons him and sucks his innards out through a straw

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    an alarming amount of mating in the animal kingdom is based around rape

    rape is natural

    For asians, maybe.

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
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    I don't really know if this even needs a description. The picture says it all.

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    NATURE!
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    Spoilered for penguin vs seal

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    my top five favorite animals are:

    White Tigers
    Black Panthers
    Blue Sharks
    Gray Wolves
    Dusky Dolphins

    runners-up:
    tiger sharks, lions, bottlenose dolphins, seals, tarantulas, boa constrictors, koalas, bears

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    an alarming amount of mating in the animal kingdom is based around rape

    rape is natural

    For asians, maybe.

    were there tentacles involved?

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    although in many species the females do often cannibalize the males after mating, I don't get what that has to do with my comment on social spiders (which do not engage in cannibalism, otherwise they wouldn't really be social would they?)

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    thanks for spoilering that, wnr

    i don't got a reason to see penguins get mauled

    penguins are the nicest guys in nature

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    NATURE!
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    Spoilered for penguin vs seal

    took his head clean off

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    NATURE!
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    Spoilered for penguin vs seal

    is it wrong that i found that really funny

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    [21:18] cowboyrobotangel: holy shit
    [21:18] cowboyrobotangel: why are there so many posts
    [21:19] StovietJoe: :)
    [21:19] StovietJoe: you forget how great se is
    [21:19] StovietJoe: slug sex is an awesome thread starter

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I don't uhh...I don't think that penguin survived

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    although in many species the females do often cannibalize the males after mating, I don't get what that has to do with my comment on social spiders (which do not engage in cannibalism, otherwise they wouldn't really be social would they?)

    I'm saying that spiders are evil little monsters

    I can't bring myself to hurt one, but I don't like the mean-looking ones

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Pony wrote: »
    thanks for spoilering that, wnr

    i don't got a reason to see penguins get mauled

    penguins are the nicest guys in nature
    I don't see what that has to do with anything
    everything needs to eat, everything gets eaten by something

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    [21:18] cowboyrobotangel: holy shit
    [21:18] cowboyrobotangel: why are there so many posts
    [21:19] StovietJoe: :)
    [21:19] StovietJoe: you forget how great se is
    [21:19] StovietJoe: slug sex is an awesome thread starter

    are you saying grumbles didn't expect this thread to succeed? i thought she was smarter than that

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    no love for the cutest hedgehog

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    guess hell never be the head of a major corporation

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    thanks for spoilering that, wnr

    i don't got a reason to see penguins get mauled

    penguins are the nicest guys in nature
    I don't see what that has to do with anything
    everything needs to eat, everything gets eaten by something

    doesn't mean i need to see it

    i like penguins

    do i have a reason to look at images of penguins getting eaten by seals?

    no

    i know it happens

    don't need to see it

    so wnr was a nice guy for spoilering that image

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    someone post grumblespider.jpg

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    oh yeah fucking swordfish, blue marlins, and anglar fish are up there on the list too

    seriously though

    with the exception of the dusky dolphin, my top favorite animals are class-A hunters/killers/predators/trackers

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    As a seal its not hard to get a head in life

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    its a shame he wasnt more headstrong

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it was a really bad time for him to lose his head

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    seals are dicks

    a juvenile seal tried to rape a penguin recently

    just held it down and humped it for no good reason

    i support the seal hunt

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    siberian tigers in the snow are fucking majestic as hell

    siberian_tiger_CF.jpg

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