I Bet You Really Wanted To See The Goliath Spider Mating Dance [Video]
What do do when you happen to have two of the largest spiders in the world just laying around? You try to make more of them, of course! At least that’s what the San Diego Zoo is trying to do with...
View ArticleSlug Sex Looks Like Art, is Apparently Awesome [Video]
We’ve posted some pretty strange moments from the natural world here on Geekosystem. While surprisingly fast hunter snails and giant mating spiders (sorry about that) are all well and good, they have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bats Listen For Fly Sex Love Sounds, Interrupts And Eats Fly Couple
Stefan Greif from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and team discovered that Natterer’s bats listen for the sound of copulating flies to locate and eat them. Apparently, the bats can hear the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marine Whelk Snails Are The Ocean’s Daddy Day Care, But Less Awful
Marine whelk snails carry their young on their back, toting their eggs around for weeks after mating. The notion is not actually that uncommon under the seas — male pipefish and seahorses are also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Worth A Shot, I Guess: Male Atlantic Mollies Go Gay To Boost Mating Chances...
We’ve brought you stories about some of the more interesting techniques animals will go to to improve, even slightly, their chances at breeding. Heck, you barely need us for that — head down to your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barnacles Throw Sperm At One Another To Reproduce
Since they spend their entire lives glued to one spot — be it a rocky shore or the hull of your uncle’s fishing boat — barnacles have had to develop breeding techniques that let them get a little...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beavers Help Geese Reproduce, But Not in a Gross Way
A new study done by a team at the University of Alberta shows that the increased activity around beaver dams helps create conditions more favorable for Canada geese mating. Essentially, the busier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make It Count, Dude: Spider Species Dies After Having Sex
I know the human dating game can seem rough at times, but the fact of the matter is, we have it pretty good. Don’t believe me? Consider if you will the sorry state of Dolomedes tenebrosus, the dark...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sweet Mustache, Bro! These Toads Grow Spikes on Their Lips to Fight and Mate
Generally speaking, toads and other amphibians are pretty peaceful. Except for Battletoads. They’re brutal. When they do fight, it’s pretty much just for show. That’s what makes Emei mustache toads...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just Like a Lot of Humans, Coelacanths are Mostly Monogamous and Don’t Mate...
German scientists have been hard at work analyzing the genetic makeup of coelacanth offspring to learn more bout their mating patterns. What they found is that the coelacanth generally isn’t into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Testosterone in Part of a Bird’s Brain Makes Them Sing More, but Doesn’t Help...
Male canaries woo potential mates with song, and a new study shows that delivering testosterone to one part of the bird’s brain increases the frequency with which the bird sings, but doesn’t improve...
View Article
