The 9 Most Bizarre Mating Rituals in the Animal Kingdom

If you’ve been around the internet for a while, you know mother nature can get pretty weird. Especially when it comes to sex. Read on for the strangest mating rituals among animal species. They make humans seem downright boring!

9. Male porcupines pee on female porcupines before sex.
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via tumblr

If his pee is deemed acceptable, she accepts his advances and one of these cute critters might be born!

8. Red-side garter snakes have massive orgies.
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via naturenorth

During mating season, a single female may attract and mate with hundreds of male suitors.

7. Clownfish change gender.
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via congo-pages

Clownfish are ALL born male. When there are no females in a group, the largest clownfish will become a female in order to mate.

6. Giant pandas in zoos watch panda porn.
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via neatorama

Pandas in captivity showed little interest in sex until a zookeeper came up with the idea of showing them panda sex videos.

5. Mating snails shoot darts at each other
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via wikipedia

Called “love darts”, these projectiles are made of calcium and can be up to 5mm long. As snails don’t have great aim, you can imagine this can be quite dangerous.

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