To wonder how snakes have sex?

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Or fish?
or great blue whales? (must cause huge waves...)
or worms?
or eels?

perhaps they just tie themselves in knots

Female fish lays eggs, bloke fish comes along and fertilises them, I think.

I like your boredness thinking though.

I'd like to know what baby worms look like? Just smaller ones? I've never seen any tiny weeny worms.

And what about hedgehogs? Ouch

Snakes do a mad rub up ech other squirming around, a bit like a when push-it comes on in a crap club and all the desperates take to the dance floor

What do you call a snake who works for the governement ?

A civil serpent !

I was wondering about snakes the other day... Not enough to google it though :o

Thanks BabyDubs, super visual!

What do you get if you cross a snake and a hotdog?

A fangfurter

yes fish do lay eggs and in our pond they get sprayed all over the place,the male fish rubs against the female and eggs are expelled and fertilised by the male .Then they get eaten by all our other fish !

Apparently the female hedgehogs push their spines really flat so it goes smooth. It was on a QI repeat the other day. And I think they are on of the animals who have penis' with spines to hold the female. (nice!)

hog sex

If you go on wikipedia, they have (or used to have) a picture of worms having sex.

They have both sex organs.

Worms glue themselves together and fertilise each other.
Blue whales have giant willies.

no one has answered the blue whale one! I reckon they only do it once because of the huge repercussions, definitely the cause of 'freak' big waves. Nothing to do with other sciencey shit...

What about limpets - do they snuggle under one shell and squadge together?
crabs?

(ignorant question now - I know chickens lay eggs and technically these are chicken periods... if however they are fertilised (presumably chickens have sex?) how do you know if the egg has been fertilised or not before cracking it open??)

Worms fertilise each other ? so they both have worm babies? gender neutral?

The egg gets taken away from the chicken by the next day, and kept somewhere cold, so it never gets any chance to develop. Even if it has been fertilised, there is just a handful of cells which are the start of the embryo, so you can't tell the difference.

They need to be kept warm for a while to let them develop.

Male snakes have a penis. a rather odd forked one in fact.
they insert it into the female in the usual way.

so they're not necessarily periods but embryos?
ohh for some reason that's SO much weirder!

forked one? is there a reason for the shape - does it look like their tongues? and where is it on them?

No one really knows about eels because no one has ever caught them doing it - happens way over on the other side of the Atlantic in the Sargasso Sea, probably quite deep, as that's where the smallest baby eels crop up. Strange but true.

Yes, worms are hermaphrodite and fertilise each other. They then both lay eggs.

wow that's so strange!
I'm quite that no one knows how eels reproduce...

I've seen video footage of mating anacondas. A whole bunch of them basically tie themselves into a great big snaky knot. THere is a scientific term for the 'snaky knot' obviously

The don't know about what those huge turtles get up to either do they?

Because they live so far out at sea.

"Worms are hermaphrodite and fertilise each other".

Worms are indeed hermaphrodite. But they don't just fertilise themselves and lay eggs. They do fertilse each other though.
You can see the clitellum on a (female) worm bacause of the thick red band between segment 16-18; that means they're pregnant and you will feel extrememly guilty when you chop them in half when gardening.

And No. The two halves will not happily continue after you've chopped them in half. They will be dead

they have an opening about 2 thirds down on the under sideof their belly.
You can see it if you look. the penis is retracted most of the time but in younger snakes they can be manipulated to pop out.

yes they look a bit like their tongues.
I think they are forked to help them stay in place.

A male Blue Whale has a 9m long willy ...