Banana slugs are hermaphroditic, meaning they have both male and female organs. When mating, their genitalia can sometimes get stuck together. If this happens, one slug will chew off the other’s penis to separate them.

Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2024/12/wisdom-the-74-year-old-albatross-lays-an-egg-with-new-mate/

Mating dance of cowfish
https://youtu.be/PSHYz31tCyA?si=0FK9GX84E5gOCte6
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Did you know that male spiders can offer worthless nuptial gifts to females to mate? Pavón-Peláez et al. provide evidence on how changing environmental conditions favor this deceptive mating tactic in Neotropical spiders. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732308

Making some agar growth medium for facilitating fission yeast mating
They have two mating types: h- and h+
Malt extract in the medium
Fission yeast - Schizosaccharomyces pombe

I just made a successful pollination for our pumpkin (I think), now fission yeast’s turn

Good morning. Welcome to my first mild content warning. Insect erotica.

There is something oddly wholesome in finding out that male drosophila (fruit flies) are as a species, heavily into giving their partners oral sex.

Fig.1 (c) lays it all out.

What species of animal do you think has the most impressive mating ritual?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv3c5mFs03o

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