Group sex among the giant cuttlefish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlhx5fKDrrg

In this extract from the BBC / Discovery docudrama Life , we learn about a mating strategy that ’s fairly common in the animal world . A distaff cuttle is woo by two males . One is large and dominant , fighting off other males to fertilize the female ’s eggs . The other is what ’s known rather judgmentally among zoologists as a “ sneak , ” a small cuttlefish who shift his color and visual aspect to look like a female . pretend to court the orotund male person , he snuggle up next to the female and on the Q.T. matte up with her . apparently , the female likes both kinds of attention , since she select to accept both males and inseminate her eggs with both their sperm .

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