00:00 Do you think "Fifty Shades of Grey" is an encyclopedia of sexual emancipation?
00:08 It turns out that animals in this sense are no less inventive than humans.
00:13 With us people everything is more or less clear.
00:16 Flowers, a romantic dinner or an invitation to a cup of tea.
00:21 Well, what will happen next, you all know perfectly well.
00:25 Meanwhile, animals have completely different behaviors both during courtship and in sex.
00:31 A male koala, for example, yells foolishly all night long as courtship.
00:41 The porcupine urinates on the female before intercourse.
00:46 The octopus inserts a removable penis into the girlfriend and runs away so as not to
00:51 be eaten.
00:53 The mating ritual of praying mantises is also already well known to everyone.
00:58 During mating, an irritated female tears off the male's head and eats it.
01:04 And that's just the introduction.
01:06 But we have picked up the strangest love rituals from the animal world that you don't know
01:10 about yet.
01:12 The video is interesting and funny at the same time.
01:16 So make yourself comfortable and let's get started.
01:23 Let's start with one interesting bird.
01:34 The red-capped piper stands out not only with its intricate name.
01:39 To attract a female, the male can jump onto a branch and move along it with a moonwalk
01:44 back and forth, making up to 80 wing beats per second and accompanying all this with
01:50 loud singing.
01:56 When it comes to dancing, even Michael Jackson would envy this bird.
02:01 No female can resist such dances.
02:04 After that, everything happens quite typically.
02:13 Next on the list is the giraffe.
02:15 This long-necked animal quietly chews leaves for most of its life.
02:20 However, quiet is only from our point of view, because the main part of giraffe communication
02:26 is carried out at a sound frequencies that are not perceived by the human ear.
02:31 So giraffes do not shine with vocal abilities, but they have reached the heights of skill
02:36 in finding suitable partners.
02:39 The male giraffe goes around different herds, trying to find a female.
02:44 When he sees a suitable candidate, he does not begin to make forced jokes, give flowers
02:49 or ask for a phone number.
02:51 He immediately gets down to business.
02:54 He bends his neck and begins to poke the female with his nose into her ass.
03:00 He does this in order to taste her urine.
03:04 When a giraffe pokes a female in the rum, she must respond with a jet, which the male
03:09 catches in his mouth and tastes.
03:13 During this tasting, the male finds out whether certain chemical compounds are contained in
03:18 the urine, which indicate the female's readiness for mating.
03:23 The giraffe of course does not understand the scientific aspects of this ritual.
03:28 He just does what is in his genes.
03:31 Wandering the savannah, testing urine, looking for a life partner.
03:38 But compared to the hippo, the giraffe is just a schoolboy.
03:43 The hippopotamus is the most underestimated representative of the rich African fauna.
03:49 At first glance, it seems that this is just a fat floating cow, but as the famous internet
03:55 meme says, no one dares to joke with a small hippo.
03:59 No one.
04:01 It is believed that hippos kill more people per year than sharks.
04:06 On land they are quite clumsy, but in the water they can develop dizzying speed.
04:15 Male hippos, unlike giraffes, prefer dung.
04:19 Such an aggressive animal marks its territory a lot, which is not surprising.
04:24 Hippos do this by leaving giant piles of dung on the banks of the rivers and lakes they
04:29 swim in.
04:31 Heaping a heap, the hippopotamus rotates its short tail, scattering feces around.
04:37 Some males can shoot at a distance of 2 meters.
04:41 Not only males like to use the built-in manure thrower.
04:45 When the male walks around his territory, the females are not limited to languid glances.
04:51 If the female likes the male, then she turns around, lifts her buttocks out of the water
04:57 and also turns on her tail fan, fertilizing the surroundings.
05:02 Scientists have given this behavior the name "submissive defecation".
05:11 From films and from personal experience, many are familiar with the situation when a violent
05:16 showdown between a couple develops into a passionate act of love.
05:21 After which, for some time, harmony reigns again between a man and a woman.
05:26 In the animal kingdom, this is also practiced, most often in groups of chimpanzees bonobos.
05:34 In the social life of these primates, intimacy plays a crucial role.
05:39 Bonobo sexual intercourse often becomes a means of conflict resolution and reconciliation
05:45 after quarrels.
05:46 There are other features in the sexual relations of these chimpanzees.
05:51 For example, only bonobos look each other directly in the eyes during intercourse.
05:57 They are also very fond of kissing.
06:02 And the females of these primates often mate for profit.
06:06 Hungry females give themselves to males to feed safely on their food.
06:11 It is interesting that with such a low, by the standards of people, level of morality,
06:18 bonobo communities are extremely tolerant of females.
06:21 Flocks of these chimpanzees are almost always led by the most prolific females.
06:36 When spring arrives in the Canadian province of Manitoba, goddard snakes crawl out of their
06:42 earthen burrows, hungry for food and love.
06:45 They gather in groups that can number tens of thousands of individuals and huddle together
06:51 in giant writhing balls.
06:54 These balls form after females release a mating pheromone to indicate their presence.
07:01 Males from all around smell it and crawl to the culp, hoping to have their own reptile
07:06 offspring.
07:07 However, the matter is not limited to group love.
07:11 In the midst of copulating snakes, there are also several males who pretend to be females.
07:17 Many researchers previously believed that males who emit female pheromones do so in
07:23 order to deceive other males.
07:25 First, by pretending to be a female, they can avoid aggression from larger and more
07:30 dominant rivals.
07:33 By evading conflict, weaker snakes prolong their own lives and increase their chances
07:38 of finding a mate after all.
07:41 There is also a theory that mimicry is used to make competitors waste their precious seed.
07:48 Deceived males believe that they have successfully passed on their genes to future generations,
07:53 not realizing how cleverly they were deceived.
07:58 Now let's move a little under the water.
08:02 African cichlids never engage in the traditional love act, but prefer exclusively oral.
08:08 The females of these fish carry their eggs in their mouths.
08:13 When the female opens her mouth, the male passes the eggs to her.
08:17 The female bears them in her mouth even sometime after the fry hatch.
08:23 It is probably the only species on Earth that reproduces in this manner.
08:28 1.
08:29 Granians
08:30 Talking about water love and its varieties, it is necessary to mention granians.
08:44 Granians are such unremarkable fish.
08:47 In the spring and summer, for several nights, granians come to the sandy beaches of California.
08:54 The fish coming ashore with the tide have only one goal - to make love.
08:59 A salty, sandy, wet argy begins under the moonlight.
09:05 Females having ridden on a wave bury their tails in the sand so that only their heads
09:09 stick out.
09:11 Once in this position, they prepare to spawn.
09:14 But this will happen only after fertilization.
09:18 On the next waves, males arrive, gathering in round dances around the females.
09:23 They throw out milt, a liquid containing semen.
09:27 Milt flows down the smooth bodies of females to the eggs.
09:32 Having done their job, the males ride the waves back to the ocean.
09:36 Females get out of the sand and follow them.
09:39 After a few hours, the beach is empty.
09:42 Tourists walking on the sand during the day do not even suspect that quite recently, fish
09:47 passions were in full swing here.
09:51 One more strange fish can be mentioned - anglerfish.
09:56 This extremely unattractive fish with huge sharp teeth lives in the sea at a depth of
10:01 more than 300 meters.
10:06 Males are much smaller than females and spend their entire lives looking for a mate.
10:12 Once a mate is found, the male clings to the female, allowing their tissues to grow together
10:18 and unite the circulatory system.
10:21 After such a fusion, the male becomes constantly dependent on the female for nutrients carried
10:27 by her blood, while the female becomes a kind of self-fertilizing hermaphrodite who receives
10:33 love on demand.
10:35 In fact, the fish are constantly engaged in an act of love, and the male himself is a
10:41 floating fertilizing organ with a heart.
10:44 Oh yes, there can be several males for one such female.
10:48 It's a pretty funny family bond, isn't it?
10:51 Well friends, the video has come to an end and we hope you enjoyed watching it.
10:58 We ask only one thing - do not repeat anything seen in the video at home.
11:03 Well, we do not say goodbye to you, but say "see you soon".
11:07 Bye Bye.
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