• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 hours ago

      Other animals are… bizarrely terrible at copulating or even just reproducing in general…

      Spiders nut into a specially constructed bit of web, suck that into their hands, then grope the female blindly until they find the right hole and squirt the nut into them (from their hand). In some species the arm then pops off :)
      Some insects just give up completely and stab their genitals into the female’s abdomen and pray to god that the sperm gets where it needs to go and that she doesn’t just die from being STABBED.
      Lots of stuff in the ocean doesn’t even attempt to have sex, instead opting to dump their gametes into the water and let jesus take the wheel.
      Barnacles evolved loooong loooooooong diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicks that they use to do the helicopter until they feel it bump into someone else whereupon they french them. So that’s one of the better attempts at sex.

      Even our fellow vertebrates aren’t that good at it, with lots of them only having a single hole for everything, which is both messy and presumably requires ISS docking procedures to be followed.

      Meanwhile we mammals have a thing that goes into the other thing and delivers the games directly from the source, and not only is there nothing preventing us from doing this as many times as we want but in fact evolution even had the bright idea to make it actually feel good, to the point that us humans have to invent measures to limit reproduction!
      suffering from success

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      4 days ago

      That’s pretty normal when you compare it to some squids who impale the females with sperm missiles and she then picks which one of the sperm missiles she wants to use to get pregnant