Male kangaroos has 3 penises

Was discussing the love life of leopard slugs with someone, whether they'd make good festive decorations. We decided that a slug was for life not just for Christmas.

I can’t imagine a genre of porn for that. Too complicated. Everyone would get bored long before the money shot.

@ArabeIIaScott Did you have to?

I saw that when it first aired, it's taken me years to get over it. So much slime!

(Not as traumatising as the falling walruses in one of the Blue Planet's though).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_v9XLRDlXw

WAIT TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT JELLYFISH!!!!

They can reproduce in various different ways. And the 'immortal jellyfish' can actually reverse the ageing process.

'Jellyfish have a complex life cycle: a single jellyfish reproduces both sexually and asexually during its lifetime, and takes on two different body forms.
An adult jellyfish is called a medusa, which is the familiar umbrella-shaped form that we see in the water. Medusa jellyfish reproduce sexually by spawning—the mass release of eggs and sperm into the open ocean—with entire populations sometimes spawning all together. Male and female jellyfish (there aren't many hermaphrodites) release the sperm and eggs from their mouths. In most species, fertilization takes place in the water; in others, the sperm swim up into the female's mouth and fertilize the eggs within.
The fertilized eggs then develop into planulae (singular: planula), which are ciliated free-swimming larvae shaped a bit like a miniature flattened pear. After several days of development, the planulae attach to a firm surface and transform into flower-like polyps. The polyps have a mouth and tentacles that are used to feed on zooplankton.
Polyps reproduce asexually by budding—when a polyp divides roughly in half to produce a new genetically identical polyp—or they can produce or transform into medusae, depending on the type of jellyfish. Hydrozoan polyps bud medusae from their sides; cubozoan polyps each transform into a medusa.
Throughout their lifecycle, jellyfish take on two different body forms: medusa and polyps. Polyps can reproduce asexually by budding, while medusae spawn eggs and sperm to reproduce sexually. (Smithsonian Ocean Portal)'

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/jellyfish-and-comb-jellies#section_16508

I promise you this is a true story:

My mother was very religious and the vicar of our town visited us at home as she was recovering from illness. I was lurking in case she needed anything when in front of us all, the dog walked in, grabbed a cushion in her teeth and started humping it 😬

After a few mortifying seconds, my mum asked me, in a very strangled tone, to take the dog out.

That was bloody amazing! How does anything evolve to take that level of faff just to cop off!

With an audible pop! It's faintly disturbing the glee that beekeepers have when they tell you about this.

The drone bee's penis explodes off with ejaculation.

Also probably a porn theme somewhere.

The drone bee's penis explodes off with ejaculation. Mating takes place on the wing so the semi exploded drone falls to earth while the queen flies on to mate with other drones.

Drone bees' only purpose is to mate which they do only once (see above). Any drone bees left in the colony after the summer have their wings chewed off by the female worker bees before they are literally kicked out of the hive so they are not a drain on limited food stores over winter.

Reminds me of the old joke 'how do hedgehogs make love? Very carefully'. And, of course, Nanny Ogg's song.

I only recently found this out but male porcupines pee on the female porcupines and if she likes how it smells she picks him.

I suspect that is a sub-theme in porn somewhere.

I only recently found this out but male porcupines pee on the female porcupines and if she likes how it smells she picks him.

Aw YES a chance to share my slug pr0n video!!!

How different society would be if women had pouches to incubate our young.

Also, how different society would be if humans had a mating season instead of the all year round arrangement.

Oh we truly didn't 😱😂

The pouch is quite muscular, I think it's more like an ejector seat.

A female kangeroo being chased by a predator will strategically take her Joey out of her pouch and throw it to the predator to save herself. Teaching kids about nature is such a bonding experience 😂

Kangaroos can throw?

Just reread this thread and it reminded me of something.

I went to a nearby wildfowl reserve and they were having a wild animal day. They'd brought in a bunch of small animals for the kids to look at. One was a little wallaby in an enclosure. I was chatting to his keeper, when he (the wallaby) extended his penis and started beating it against the ground. To break the sudden embarrassed silence I said, 'so...it's a boy then'.

Perhaps you had to be there.

I highly recommend this TED talk...

https://www.ted.com/talks/carinbondarrthebirdssandtheebeesareejustthee_beginning

Okies. FIL is a beef farmer. Liquid nitrogen is a big thing in his world.

I have nothing of any use to add to this thread! But god it's fascinating.

As you were carry on!

Very common in marsupials - quokkas are notorious for it. I think monotremes do the same.

Quolls will eat small wallabies and tasmanian devils can tackle a small kangaroo, so thylacenes would almost certainly have eaten at least an occasional kangaroo.

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