Sexual Reproduction Is Already Weird, but These Animals Make It Weirder! Much Weirder...
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- Can eating your babies really make you a good mom? Reproduction may be one of the few things that all animals have in common, but that doesn't mean that they all go about it in the same way. When it comes to making babies, some animals are just plain weird! Join Zoologist Dr. Clint Laidlaw as he explores some of the weirdest mating strategies in all of the animal world.
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Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a RUclips Videos all about the 🦥 Phylogeny Group Of Xenarthrans (Edentata)🦥, such as Armadillos, Glyptodonts, Pampatheres, Anteaters, Tamanduas, Tree Sloths, Ground Sloths, And Aquatic Sloths on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍
Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a RUclips Videos all about the 🥚Phylogeny Group Of Monotremes (Egg-Laying Mammals)🥚, such as Platypuses and Echidnas on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
Whats the largest animal you've ever seen
Good video today :]
Cow best pet mammal
I speak for everyone when I say "We're all into that kinda thing" Clint
You're my kind of people!
Def into it.
100%. I'm that girl at work that looks at our fish and gets excited to show off breeding behavior to my coworkers lol
**Asexuals have left the chat**
@@InventorZahran They are not into mating, but some of them might want to have children, so they might be interested in how different reproduction techniques work too.
a whole species of lizards playing rock, paper, scissors as a mating strategy. didn't expect that today.
Well, I would say humans have all kinds of males too.
This feels like life advice; my new strategy when dating is to only go after blues lol.
What is even crazier is that the females kept the power triangle going and balance it all out.
dont worry some beetles do it like that too
This is the best thing I've learned all year!
As a disabled person who uses a wheelchair, the most common invasive personal question I get from random strangers is, "how do you have sex?" I've found that the best way to handle this is to have a list of prepared responses that will make them at least as uncomfortable as they've made me, without revealing my own private information.
This video provides soooo many great ideas to add to that list. Thanks for that, Clint!
don't you just hate people sometimes? the rudeness can be off the charts. Sorry you need to pre-script comebacks, but i'm sure you're wicked smart at it! 💜
what really gets me about this question is just how dumb it is lol like… obviously the answer is that a person in a wheelchair has sex the same way as everybody else, occasionally featuring paralysis if they happen to be in said wheelchair due to that. like what are they asking here exactly, the specific positions you have sex in or something? people really just don’t use their brains at all i guess smh 🤦🏻♀️
"Well you see, I've got what's left of a guy melted into my thigh so I don't need any help."
Ugh, I had that when I was with a guy much bigger than me, very tall and obese. I started explaining the whole thing as if they were a child asking about it for the first time.
Them: How do you have sex?
You: loud and sloppy
I find that answer tends to stop all the pesky questions
I saw a female European sparrowhawk attacking another bird once. She had it pinned to the ground and was grabbing at it with her claws, which is how they tend to finish of larger prey. She noticed me, panicked, abandoned her prey and flew off. The prey was still alive. It stood up, looking dazed, and then flew off as well. It was a male sparrowhawk. I did a bit of research into whether this kind of behaviour is normal, and apparently it is. Females are much larger and more powerful than males, and if a male approaches a female who's not interested in mating with him, she may just turn around and eat him. It's not just spiders that do that kind of thing. I saved that sparrowhawk dude from the worst dating experience of his life.
Best wingman ever.
Hehe "wing" man
Wow, I've never heard of that behavior in birds! I guess it wouldn't be much of a leap for birds who already eat other birds
Syrian hamsters do that too. Females are much larger, and will try to kill males when she's not in the mood.
Males will often trade off their kills to females to appease them temporarily and avoid becoming a meal
I did not know that!
"This is a burying beetle. They have a special place in my heart." I genuinely expected the next line to be "because they buried their way in there."
The edited in neon sign graphics killed me. Clint has some colorful ways of putting things, lol.
When one day I find my soulmate, I now have much more descriptive terms than boyfriend by which to call them! 🤣
True, I really like those kinds of middle visuals rather than a dumb photostock guy shrugging to no one and other dumb sht they present to to reiterate what they've just said
My daughter got married today. Does this mean she's acquired a testicle toting tagalong?
SSS and HCC 😂
I wish I could write them out, but yt autodeletes too many comments
To be honest, I have heard more romantic terms of endearment.
But sadly, always addressed to other poeple.
“heterosexual chimera of convenience” is burned into my brain now. thank you
It might even be better than "Toxicognath"
Pure poetry 🤌
Coalescent hermaphroditism
New band name?
Could have MS or Huntington or spina bifida or any number of awful afflictions. Arthritis? Woe is you.
When the rat-mummifying baby-eating beetles are the LEAST weird thing in the video, you know you're in for a treat.
"Honey, how many kids do you want?"
"One mouse of kids"
The Sea Devil really came out like "These aren't tentacles; they're GENTICLES!!"
You mean genitacles
All Hail Yivo!
The 6-month old uncle Darryl bit was awesome. His comedy gift is definitely on the up and up
Hope it was during the summer so he could enjoy his jet skis!
“...the same nasty recessive alleles.” me both with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis goes burrrrr.
I am sad to hear that. I’m 73 and have had severe fibromyalgia since I was 12 after I basically drowned. Back then most doctors told my parents I was seeking attention (I was female, therefore). Haven’t found the gene but it runs in my family on both sides. One doctor asked me if my parents were twins I have so many disorders. Sucks losing in the genetic poker game. My heart goes out to you! One of my cousins had what you do…hope you’re getting good help!
Isn't that thing that Michaela Peterson had and lost few joints because of it until she find out that carnivore diet keep her healthy?
@@zperdek I do eat meat..I’d rather be a vegetarian, as I believe it’s better for the planet, but have so many food allergies I wouldn’t get enough protein.I’ve rotated foods, including meats, for longs it’s automatic.
Hubs just showed up in the lair with a steaming cup of coffee and doughnuts... he gets to live.
Clint is Mr Rogers as directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Calling it “Clint's Sex Stories” would attract the completely wrong crowd who would be sorely disappointed...
Unless they're into that kinda thing...
The three male type lizards are one of my favorite examples of weird mating strategies. Its so unlikely for such a thing to develop and then also just be conveniently color coded?! So cool. Can you do another one and talk about how some species incorporated homosexual pairings into the strategy? There's a couple bird species that do this
Yea I have some doubts he would
Nothing brings me more joy as someone who works with raptors in a public setting than telling people that the enourmous eagle they assumed was male is in fact female, and that males are about a third smaller (hence why in falconry a male raptor is called a tiercel). Raptor gender is a whole different beast, the females are the top and they will never let you forget it!
Fun fact: Different morphs of males also exist in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). I wouldn't be surprised if they're also playing some form of rock, paper scissors.
My favourite weird mating strategy must be how prawns are born as males and grow up into females.
What is even crazier is that the females kept the power triangle going and balance it all out.
protoandrous and protogynous hermaphrodites have to be one of the strangest strategies out there, like why not just be full out hermaphrodites at that point right?
@@YEs69th420 Well being a full hermaphrodite means you need to spend resources on building and maintaining both organs and the production of both sperm and eggs. And you don't actually get much of a genetic advantage during mating with another hermaphrodite, because while you can exchange both sperm and eggs with each other, you're still fusing the same two genomes either way just like normal sexual reproduction, so it's not really any additional genetic diversity.
The real advantage of a species being hermaphroditic is that 100% of the species you come across is a potential mating partner, instead of 50% (well not actually 100% because of some not being sexually mature or whatever, but you get the point). But if finding a mating partner is an issue for two sex animal species, generally the species can just lower the pickiness of its sexual selection. For most animal species it's not that much of an issue to find SOME of of the opposite sex, and if the rate of successful mating is low, the real issue is individuals are too picky with sexual selection.
Yes, ruffs actually have female-mimicking males too.
My understanding is it's not so much "rock paper scissors" with ruffs, it's "ladies love a smorgasbord":
The territorial males keeps a territory and draws as many females as possible to it. Ironically they are the last choice of the females.
Orbiter males hang around a territorial male's territory and sneak-mate the females. Except he's not that good of a sneaker, the territorial male knows he's there and tolerates his presence, because having an orbiter around attracts more females, which benefits the territorial male because the females are pretty promiscuous and will mate with both.
The third type of males, faeders, are rare as far as anyone knows. Much like the orbiter the faeder keeps no territory and "sneak" mates with the females (with whom he is the most popular of the three morphs)... But the difference is the faeder ALSO mates with the males. The faeder looks almost exactly like the females so for a long time folks thought his strategy was just to disguise himself as a female to sneak into the harem, except we now know that they also frequently top the males, which doesn't suggest they're just pretending to be girls. The territorial and orbiter are cool with this, because turns out mating with a faeder draws a LOT more females to either of them than they might otherwise meet.
May I suggest a follow-up video discussing the reproductive strategies of unicellular organisms, many of which are remarkably different from what the average person was taught in school. For example, Tetrahymena thermophila, with its 7 different genders and 21 different possible mate pairings.
Great suggestion!
Well, 7 sexes.
It is kind of hard to tell how many genders (i.e. constructed personality archetypes) they have.
If souls are true, it would likely be 1 gender, due to them likely being single soul (1 soul/species). And a common personality implies a common gender.
@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavanagender has nothing to do with "souls". Gender is correlated with sex. The characteristics most common within a particular sex are considered characteristic of that sex. So males are typically male-like and females are typically female-like. Variability leads to female-like males and male-like females, but this doesn't negative the averages. Gender is a matter of statistics
So when discussing the 7 sexes of tetrahymena thermophila I'd ask what characteristics are on average found that differentiate each sex. If there isn't any then they're genderless.
Also gender isn't constructed. For crying out loud, male worms have different mating behaviors to female worms so even they have different genders. And they're worms
@@user-ld9tf4td8s If they are all the same being, they would inevitably have the same behavioural characteristics.
Because they are the only one there to do anything.
No other tetrahymena exists to be be different to them. The species has a true population of 1.
@@user-ld9tf4td8sunder current terminology gender is unrelated to sex outside of how it exists as a social construct.
I grew up going to Chester Zoo, and i was about ten when the female komodo dragon gave birth through parthenogenesis, which at the time was the first known case of parthenogenesis in komodo dragons.
Wow
I love the thumbnail, such a "me and the boys" energy
That was an intense episode. Each strategy more horrific yet fascinating as the last.
I am in school for zoology and just recently learned about side-blotched lizards in my animal behavior class. They are also called rock-paper-scissor lizards
I wonder if that's where Magic got its scissors lizard. Along with the rock lobster and paper tiger, of course.
“You don’t need to be very big to make a whole mess of sperm” thanks Clint 🙏🏻😔
12:47
I had a blue side blotch lizard back in 2016, and his name was Mr. Squishy. That's when I started to like reptiles. His early videos are still on my channel 😊
RIP Mr. Squishy ❤
I didn’t know bug reproduction could surprise me after flatworms and praying mantis and matriphagous spiders. That beetle parenting was horrific but also weirdly kinda sweet? The way they stick around and work together to raise them I mean.
Definitely horrific. But I suppose an alien being coming to earth might did lactation and nursing to be disgusting.
I knew the answer would me snuggler. Clint is very fond of wearing blue and has such a fuzzy personality.
Uncle Darryl is awesome, but you really shouldn't open the "pictures" folder on his hard drive. Just saying ..😂
Some things should just be left unopened...
I imagine Clint before he found youtube sitting in a bus stop giving unwilling strangers educational talks on animal reproduction. No wonder he is so glad we are into that sort of thing 😂
I managed to predict the three male lizard situation!
It really reminded me of cuttlefish, who also have tricksy males who like crossdressing.
I love the one-sided cross-dressing cuttlefish. Left: I'm a demure little lady. Right: Hey, ladies, check out this sneaky peacock!
Birds do that as well
@@Eloraurora Excellent turn of phrase
PART TWO PLEASE!
with moar hermaphrodites!
I’m definitely down to seeing a video on angler fish! One of the coolest animals out there!
Agreed! The deep ocean ones are so cool, but have you seen the smaller anglers? Google frogfish if not. They're delightful little guys.
Necrophile beetles was not what I was expecting
Real life Hunger Games
We call them death diggers. 🇸🇪
I'm definitely the weirdo that's into that kinda thing. My search history is already messed up
Yes, more weird mating strategies. Definitely into that kinda thing. And speaking of weird, a video on Hyraxes would be awesome
the ant section absolutely broke my brain, thank you Clint ❤
Holy crap this entire section on parthenogenesis is BLOWING MY FREAKING MIND!! I had no idea something like that was possible. I had never even heard of ZW chomoromes! This is the kind of incredible information I am here for! Wow!!!!
The triple-male lizard is a good example of why "survival of the fittest" is not always a good description of how evolution works. Very often animals use alternate strategies that aren't better or worse than the other but rather complement and make use of each other. Classic game theory.
I think these days it's usually described as "Survival of the adequate".
I didn't know about the lizards either. This is David Attenborough level video.
I saw those lizards in a brief series of images by Humon, an online artist who's most well-known for the project "Scandinavia and the World". She made that brief series of weird animal mating strategies with humanoid forms instead, as in "imagine of people-"
I totally get the draw of making your whole channel weird animal sex facts. Became my favorite go to on my RUclips channel. Flatworms with their penile fencing culminating in traumatic insemination had to be one of my favorites though.
Also, have you heard Hank Green’s song about the deep sea angler fish? Highly recommend if you haven’t. lol.
What is even crazier is that the females kept the power triangle going and balance it all out.
How DARE you!? I am not a walking pile of ants! 🐜 I'm a walking swarm of BEES! 🐝!!! 🤣
Saturday's are stinking rad! Videos from "Ants Canada" channel and Clint's Reptiles 🐜🦎🖤💚
23:31 This is what makes Clint such a joy to watch! He can take disgusting animal facts and make them fun!
I always found it fascinating one of our closest relatives, Orangutans, also have multiple male types like sideblotched lizards, with at least comparably dramatic physical differences. Dominant males defend territories and females, are much larger, and develop broader faces and long, dreaded fur. Non-dominant males are smaller and reproduce through stealth. But non-dominant males can become dominant males if they get a territory.
Nah, that last Angler fish reproduction part is SO MY THING! I mean, the weird AF animals are my favorites (seahorses, hagfish, Greenland shark, Vampire Squid, Pipefish, Sumatran Rhino to name a handful), yes PLEASE make more of these. Matter of fact I want an entire month dedicated to these, Clint!
Rock = fighter 👊🏻
Paper = snuggler ✋🏻 (bed sheet)
Scissors = sneaker ✌🏻 (kinda like sneaking legs)
No longer do we have the contrived idea of paper beating rock.
It's honestly Clint's enthusiasm that brings me back
I'm not even a minute in, and you've given me the answer to a mystery I've been harbouring for a few years, now. I like nature, and I like taking photos of small things we usually wouldn't be able to casually appreciate, like insects, fungi, or the intimate bits of flowers. I also take a lot of crappy photos of animals to ID at a later point.
I've come across these black, medium-sized beetles ("medium" for my area; Pacific Northwest) with four red spots, two on either elytra which are about half the length of their abdomen. I also noted I often found them around dead things, but photos rarely came out well and I didn't want to harass them when they seemed intent to not be exposed. I looked up "black beetle red spots", "beetle four red spots", "carrion beetle red spots", "carrion beetle short elytra", etc.... but to no avail.
I've come across these beetles many more times, and they've remained a nameless enigma. Now that you mention it, I do believe I've most reliably seen them with dead mice.
Thank you for introducing me to my neigbour, the Burying Beetle, and I look forward to learning more about them! :3
And, of course, everything else you'll be teaching me about today.
I don't have, nor do I want to have reptile pets, but this is one of my favorite channels!
Clint you are by far my favorite wildlife based creator, you manage to make content that should be enjoyable by any intellectual, whether they be 10 years old or 50 years old, education should always be an enjoyable experience
"If you're into that sort of thing"
Oh, I am. So much.
Once seen burying beetles in action, it's quite incredible how quickly they can bury a rodent.
I was not expecting these little beetles to be so complex! These little guys are insane! 😅
I volunteer for a summer camp and do the science rotations. I'm ready to play orange/blue/yellow with the kiddos now!
Y'all missed a golden opportunity by holding off on dropping this until after Valentine's Day. 9/10
Sequel, please! This was so fascinating
I'm currently re-reading Poul Anderson's novel, Three Worlds to Conquer...in it, there are people (natives) living on Jupiter's surface. They have two kinds of males, both of which have to inseminate the female with a short time to have offspring.
Your mention of "haploid" reminded me of a story that I don't think I ever actually read, but was in one of the Analog SF magazines someone gave me in the late 70s...Alice Sheldon's (pen name=James Tiiptree, Jr.) Your Haploid Heart. Turned out I didn't have a digital copy, so thanks to you, I've tracked down a site that has the missing issues. Now I'm going to have to go ahead and finally read that story, so I can figure out how a heart could be haploid. The story is introduced with "We've had troubles through all history with the War Between the Sexes. But these people had it far worse..." So, this fits pretty well with your video. I may be mistaken, but I could swear there were several stories with the word "haploid" in them, but I haven't looked at those magazines for decades.
I'll be honest, besides the burying beetles, I actually already knew about all of these mating strategies, but I still appreciated hearing them retold again.
Actually, having thought about it a bit, and rewatched with my parents, I did realize that ZW parthenogenesis was something I had not previously come across.
The orange, yellow, blue guys just happen to be at a very visible inflexion point whilst we're observing them.
I love how thorough you are in these videos and still keep it entertaining. Keep up the great work 💙💙
Thank you for the great content!
I am a father of two and your ability to communicate and reach an audience of all different ages is very impressive.
Cheers from Alberta Canada
I would love to see more of the weird mating strategies!
The angler fish was definitely the weirdest. Animal reproduction is interesting, and knowing some of the whys behind it, like with the ants, makes it more interesting.
Yes, to a sequel! This is one of the best videos I've seen Clint release, and that is high praise.
I learned about the side-blotched lizard in my biology textbook, and thought it was awesome. I then went on to read about the cuddlefish reproductive cycle, and that was an entirely different ballgame. Love your work!
Yes we need a sequel please!! Ive heard these facts brought up randomly but never explained,, and it was fascinating to hear more elaboration on them!
A "Heterosexual Chimera of Convenience" perfectly describes my first marriage! 🤣
“Like any good parent”
Hey Clint,I posted your video on a website. A lady in AU responded and I thought you would want to read what she said;"HB mum here: To be honest, I wasn't sure if I could sit through a nearly half-hour video - not because I have a short attention span, but because I wanted to do a couple more things before going to bed (gotta get up early for work tomorrow). However, I pressed play and... I was totally fascinated not only by the multiple topics covered in rapid-fire, but Clint's wonderfully humorous delivery style. If I had him as a biology teacher, I'm sure I would have got a much better grade. Clint has the gift of passing his fascination on to the listener. I had to laugh at his description of great-great-uncle Daryl the bachelor spider with his jet ski and fabulous apartment-web but who never gets to pass on his genes because he's too gutless to sacrifice himself to "the Black Widow". And the "testicle-toting tagalong" (male Devil Fish) gave me another chuckle. {heh heh}"
"...especially if this kind of thing has been common for a while in your family" - proceeds to cutting to a photo of my family.
Thanks Clint, I felt that one in the gut.
This video was hilariously done. Entertained and educated is my favorite way to watch a video.
It's always a joy to watch your videos because you seem to be really having the time of your life talking about this stuff.
I prefer to think of these as survival strategies to decrees the weirdness, unless I intend to weird myself and other people out, which I sometimes do.
Yes please to more as soon as possible! I loved this!
one you didn't cover, but covered a similar strategy with the lizards is Cuttlefish which have a type of male that actually looks and behaves almost exactly like a female, even displaying sexual receptiveness toward larger territorial males and and apparently mating with them. They join that males harem, unbeknownst to him while guarding that male along with the other females from other territorial males, while he mates with the other females as well.
I literally love this guys channel 😭 his passion in these videos is so cool and listening to all of the explanations and understand the animals, learning so much, it’s not like someone boring who just explains things but ain’t funny like this guy but not cringe at the same time 😂❤️
The joy you get from all this is infectious. ✌🏻
Fascinating stuff! Excited for more in the future!
Speaking for the Antkeeping discord, we ALL like ants. After this I'm checking to see if you have a "Are ants the best pet insect?"
Def would like another video like this! Some other interesting animals you might want to cover: white-throated sparrows, which have 2 versions of both sexes (white striped male, white striped female, tan striped male, and tan striped female), which almost always mate with the opposite version of the opposite sex so that they effectively have 4 sexes. The other would be Ruffs, which have a similar mating strategy to the side-blotched lizards. Dominant males have a dark ruff, satellite males have a light ruff, and faeder male sneaks have female like plumage. Though I can't confirm it atm and would need to look deeper into it, I remember hearing that the dominant males actually *know* the faeder is male, and let him in anyway, as it apparently excites the hens.
SOONER!!! Excellent video Clint, fascinating stuff.
As always, incredibly well done! Thank you so much :)
5:00 pregnant possome Grubby coming ashore was the talk of the town in Homer Alaska last summer!
22:42 OMG, almost choked on my cocoa, laughing like crazy!
side-blotched lizards were one of my favorite species to learn about in animal behavior class
In the next video of this series, I would like to see the breeding habits of the red-sided garter snake where the males mimic females, the semelparous reproductive life cycles of Labord's chameleons, eels, and cicadas
This video was super informative!
This is such cool info. Def in for more
Ooh, the "rock, paper, scissors" strategy lizards!
yesss definitely another video about this soon and would be so so awesome to see one on anglerfish i’ve always loved those!!!
This is an absolutely wild video, perhaps the most wild video of Clint’s I’ve ever seen and I’m ALL FOR IT. 😂
Awesome video! Would love to see more about this!
11:45 - This is just Pokemon with extra steps!!!!!!!!
Been waiting for this video
Great job with this video to clint and the whole team. Editor brought some levity with the neon signs 😂
The term haplodiploidy is my new favorite word
Burying beetles literally feeding their young like birds do brings me unexpected amounts of joy. I can't wait to tell my mum about this over dinner. She doesn't like insects but I regularly share fun insect facts with her in an effort to shift her perspective a little. :D
I loved thinking about a spider bachelor pad, a spider Jaguar ...
Can we talk about how weird the Hyraxes are!?!?!?