Sex with enimal

Dating apps have reduced the ritual of human coupling down to a swipe. Creatures of all sorts have evolved some pretty spectacular strategies to woo their mates and ensure their genes carry on. Here are just a few examples of extreme courtship and copulation that put us tech-savvy humans to shame. Like humans, giraffes undergo cycles of fertility.

Sex chromosomes influence physical differences between male and female animals, such as feather patterns in mandarin ducks. In most animals, sex chromosomes help determine whether an individual develops as a male or female. Sexes of some animals, such as most male arachnids, lack a second sex chromosome entirely. These chromosomes contribute to the physical differences between males and females.

By Michael Marshall. The urge to reproduce, to pass on our genes to a new generation, is one of the most powerful in our lives. This is equally true of the bewildering variety of animals with whom we share the planet. And they have an equally bewildering variety of ways of going about it. Our opinion editor Amanda Gefter recently visited an exhibition entitled The Sex Lives of Animals , which seeks to overturn the idea that animals engage in sex purely for procreation.

From an evolutionary and biological perspective, animals are driven to have sex in order to procreate. But there is a lot more to sexual relations between animals. Animal sex is at least as strange and varied as human sex.