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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Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
learned something new about animal sex while browsing SE++
not wholly unexpected
it's like God took a lizard and an armadillo and slapped them together
Man they are just so cute
Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
rape is natural
yes because i don't need anymore nightmares dru thanks a bunch
Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
and then the bigger female grabs the male, tears his legs off, poisons him and sucks his innards out through a straw
For asians, maybe.
I don't really know if this even needs a description. The picture says it all.
Spoilered for penguin vs seal
White Tigers
Black Panthers
Blue Sharks
Gray Wolves
Dusky Dolphins
runners-up:
tiger sharks, lions, bottlenose dolphins, seals, tarantulas, boa constrictors, koalas, bears
were there tentacles involved?
Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
i don't got a reason to see penguins get mauled
penguins are the nicest guys in nature
took his head clean off
Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
is it wrong that i found that really funny
[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
Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
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
everything needs to eat, everything gets eaten by something
are you saying grumbles didn't expect this thread to succeed? i thought she was smarter than that
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
seriously though
with the exception of the dusky dolphin, my top favorite animals are class-A hunters/killers/predators/trackers
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