Birds Do It, Bees Do It

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1. These animals are hermaphroditic- both male and female at the same time. While mating, they shoot each other with 'love darts.' Snails Squids Guppies Great white sharks

2. In some species of this animal, the male lives only as a parasite upon the female. Wasp Tarantula Anglerfish Sea turtle

3. Males of these animals produce a secretion that literally glues the female shut after mating, hopefully keeping other males from fathering offspring. Ducks Box turtles Mink Ground squirrels

4. The female of this animal has a walnut-sized body and a tongue almost three feet long. Larvae of this creature are born sexless, but if they smell the tongue of a female, they will turn into males, settle on the tongue, and become a parasite on the female. Pacific oyster Deer tick Bonellia worm Geoduck clam

5. Males of these animals explode while mating (thus injecting a device into the female that permanently inseminates her) and die soon afterwards. Black widow spiders House flies Honey bees Cane rats

6. Mating in these animals can last 56 hours. Blue whales March flies Luna moths Galapagos tortoises

7. Males of this species build an elaborate structure of twigs and leaves to attract a mate, decorating it with shells, feathers and flowers (especially blue ones). Mountain gorilla Bowerbird Hyacinth macaw Chimpanzee

8. In one species of this animal, no males exist. Females produce young without males, the young being clones of themselves. Goldfish Garter snakes Whiptail lizards Paper wasps

9. If the male of a harem of these animals dies, the largest female in the harem becomes a male and takes over the job. Scorpions Cleaner wrasse fish Alligators Whitetail deer

10. These animals gather in huge 'mating balls' composed of many animals. Usually, there is only one female in the center. Termites Earthworms Garter snakes Catfish