Dr. Lauren Esposito

No, like shaking his entire body.

Like his whole body's shaking.

Cool.

And if she doesn't react aggressively or run away, he keeps making slow movements towards her.

And eventually he reaches out and grabs her hands with his hands.

and begins hands like their claws are grabbing each other.

So they're facing each other, they're holding hands and they start to dance.

And we call this like in a scientific term, we call it a pas de deux, like a couple's dance, a ballroom dance.

While all arachnids do some kind of mating ritual, like all of them kind of dance for each other or do some kind of thing that's interactive, scorpions are like the ballroom dancers of arachnids.

So when I say it's like dating, it's really like kind of a courtship that is picky.

And they continue this dance for a while.

And eventually, if the male does like a good enough dance, then he'll finally deposit sperm onto the ground.

They deposit it on this kind of jelly stock that comes out of their body.

And at the top of the stock, they put a little package of sperm.

And he'll guide the female towards it because they're still holding hands.

Oh, I forgot to say that sometimes they kiss each other.

And they do occasionally sting each other in what we call sexual sting.

On the mouth?

Yes.

Like what?