mating, n.All

Male ladybugs can spend up to four hours mating with a dead female before they realize something's not right.

Male llamas bite off other male llamas' testicles to get rid of competitors during the mating season.

Female Komodo dragons can impregnate themselves without a male through a process called "parthenogenesis" to force the duplication of sex chromosomes and give birth to male Komodo dragons; keeping the species alive.

Female anacondas strangle and eat the males after mating so they can survive the seven months of fasting during their pregnancy.

Female dragonflies fake their own death to prevent rape.

Octopi are genetically wired to die soon after mating.

Earthworms mate by joining their clitella (swollen area near the head of a mature worm) with another worm's clitella and exchanging sperm. Then each worm forms an egg capsule in its clitellum

Mating is sex sans eroticism