Associate Professor Andrew Durso
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It is very complicated, actually.
There is what we call traumatic insemination, which is not only the penis is spiking and hurts the female in the process of anchoring and trying to transfer as much sperm as possible, but the penises sometimes have structures that will allow the male to pierce the female and inject sperm sometimes outside the reproductive tract.
Bed bugs are a good example of that.
So if you have males doing what's best for everybody and females doing what's best for everybody here so that we have more offspring in the next generation, that's just this awesome opportunity for someone to come in there and cheat.
100%.
When we look at high competition for matings in sexual selection, it's going to be a very selfish game and the strategies were going to be very selfish in there usually.
Scorpions don't have a penis, right?
They have something called a spermatophore.
It's detachable.
Basically, they dropped it on the ground, and then in that male-female dance that scorpions do, they pull the female over it.
And it gets more interesting than that, Anne, because males often sting the females during that.
No.
It's called sexual sting in the venom gland of males.
Quite likely that it also produces chemicals that help the male's interest.
And then in that male-female dance that scorpions do, they pull the female over it.
And that goes inside the female, and the tip of it has sperm, which goes inside the female, but it also normally breaks, and the tip of it serves as a mating plug.
Doesn't come out to female until she has babies.
So he guarantees she can't mate a second time.
It is very complicated, actually.
So when he catches up to her, then typically there begins a courtship process where he would rub...
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