The Animal With The Weirdest Sex Life

the Animal with the Weirdest Sex Life

Human species have very low fecundity • average of 6 offspring • FECUNDITY is the condition of the number of eggs that the species normally produces • Common toad  7000 eggs per spawning • Herring  50,000 eggs per spawning • Sturgeon  6,000,000 eggs per spawning • Tapeworm  6,000,000 eggs per year; can do it for 35 years • Queen termite  11,000,000 eggs per year; can do it for 15 years

Humans have one of the longest generation time • Generation time – from the time they were born till they are able to have their first offspring.

Humans engage in sex • Sex vs. reproduction • Although there are some other species (e.g. gorillas, dolphins, etc) who engage in orgies or probably even oral sex, our concept of sex is very different from them • We engage in sex but rarely think about reproduction and keeping our race alive and all that • humans is that we engage in sex even though ovulation in women is concealed

• “sex in humans is not for procreation, but for recreation” – Dr. Jared Diamond • we have sex even when the woman is not ready to be pregnant; even when menstruating, or with menopause. • We are perhaps the only species of animal with copulation done in private

So, what then is the animal with the weirdest sex life?