A couple of months ago , the Twitter hashtag # JunkOff got biologists to send photos that expose the profligate outlandishness of plant and creature genitalia . Yesterday , evolutionary geneticist Tom Houslaydared them to write about what fauna in reality do with their debris .
COMPETITION : What ’s the cool / weirdest sexual urge - link version , behaviour , mat system in the animal world ? That ’s right : it ’s a#HumpOff
— RealScientists ( @realscientists)October 1 , 2015
And if there ’s one matter I know from years of Biology section field day , it ’s how biologists have it off to speak about their favorite brute ’ bizarre intimate habit . Over the class of the day , the thread was a master class in animal sexual behaviour , covering habit that made flatworm penis jousting or fruit bat cunnilinctus seem tame . Like the way male common fig tree white Anglo-Saxon Protestant mate through a petite hole in the paries of the fig ( they ’re both inside the yield , but he ’s outside her brood sleeping accommodation , and she ’s inside ) .
manful fig wasps can mate with virgin females * before * they even issue from their chambers!#HumpOffpic.twitter.com / Js6lNylbiZ
Or how manlike anglerfish primer to the first female person they find , becoming little more than a pouch of orchis that she can use as needed .
.@realscientistsMale anglerfish melding with the female person is pretty weird#Humpoffhttp://t.co / GgvuVHL76spic.twitter.com / WYB37ZOEDo
— Damien Hurrell ( @DamienHurrell)October 1 , 2015
Or the traumatic hypodermic insemination habits of bedbugs .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/649590164273020928
Or the elbow room katydids manacle their genitals together as they pair .
Bushcrickets get into kinky thrall with handcuff - regulate crotch … .#humpoff@realscientistshttp://t.co / mUdVfcvLC6
— James Gilbert ( @james_gilbert)October 1 , 2015
Or the insects that offer up their wings to their mates as a repast as they screw .
Want to see it in action ? Here ’s a video of mating haglids , from Kevin Judgehttps://t.co/sl8IE7SuEL#HumpOff
— RealScientists ( @realscientists)October 2 , 2015
Or the butterflies with vagina that chew .
@realscientistsyep , here ’s the vagina dentata in your well-disposed neck of the woods Cabbage White butterfly stroke : pic.twitter.com / blGXeuVGey
— Nate Morehouse ( @zapkapow)October 1 , 2015
The lengths to which some animal will go to keep their mates to themselves also impress .
HumpOffis more than humping – male hermits guard females for weeks , sometimes taking them out for meal on-the-go.pic.twitter.com/FOOcyiDqCw
— P. Sean McDonald ( @pseanmc)October 2 , 2015
HumpOfffemale Green Spoonworm sucks up her mate , carry him in a pouch for rest of his lifehttps://t.co/Lvcxc60uLWpic.twitter.com/B5bkraLMzT
— 「 VεεLoΧΧγ・BITΞƧ 」 ( @The_Episiarch)October 2 , 2015
And so does the sheer toughness and single - mindedness of some beast , which may spawn to exhaustion , or in the typeface of the antechinus , strong-arm disintegration .
Top male#sagegrouseare master humpers , can pair with dozens of hens in a mean solar day and > 1 in a minute.#HumpOffpic.twitter.com / SpTLJzdiTo
— Alan Krakauer ( @alan_krakauer)October 2 , 2015
And here is a photo of some spent carcajou . Growliest#HumpOffpic.twitter.com / UVwgAZPT2S
— Nell 🐦 ( @pakasuchus)October 1 , 2015
.@realscientistsof course , for a real#Humpoffyou ca n’t ticktack the antechinus humping itself to deathhttp://t.co/RWp8hrYuax
you could find even more ways that animals are making the next generation at#HumpOff .
UPDATE : Correction added to fig wasp reproductive habits : they ’re both inside the fig , but she ’s in a brood chamber and he ’s outside it .
Top epitome from pakasuchus via Twitter .
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