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Weird, Wild Love: Animal and Plant Mating Habits That Put Us to Shame
You might have plans to cuddle up with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day, but it’s probably safe to say they won’t include twisting around each other while hanging upside down from a strand of mucus. Yeah, so that mucus practice is a mating habit of the leopard slug. It’s also a safe bet that none of you ladies out there hoping to spice up your sex life will sense the antics of a female praying mantis and bite off your male lover’s head mid-copulation. Which brings us to the point of this article. When you get down to it, compared to the wide array of plant and animal love out there, human romantic practices start to look a little … vanilla. Tame, if you will. Here’s our attempt to just scratch the surface of the exotic (and sometimes dangerous) ways that other creatures and green things get down.
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