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Princess Jackie
13 November 2008 @ 06:24 pm

Field mice always sleep facing northwest. Kangaroos can't walk backwards. Female hyenas have penises. Let's face it, nature is weird. What's the strangest thing you know about the animal kingdom?

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The male anglerfish latches on to a female near her stomach area. He fuses his mouth to her body and proceeds to atrophy into a pair of gonads. During ovulating season, the gonads ejects sperm into the female. To stay alive, the male anglerfish feeds off what the female eats. Gives a whole new meaning to the word leech.

Also, flatworms engage in penis-fencing. Since flatworms are hermaphrodites, come mating season, they engage in a battle and the first to get pierced is actually turned into the female for the season. Battle of the sexes, anyone?