💘🩹💍WILD VALENTINE'S POLL💘🩹💍 (Patreon)

Hello Deep Peeps! As you know, we’ve featured some rather bizarre mating behaviors in our show. Which animal's love life is most fascinating to you? If you don’t see one you like, put your own fave in the comments.   

To refresh your memory, watch our Let’s Talk About Wild Love playlist.

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Two earthworms mate by pressing their bodies against each other, their heads pointing in opposite directions. While in this position, they exchange sperm. (Kevin Collins/KQED)

He can’t rely on his eyes, but as long as this headless male mantis is close enough to use his sense of touch to find the female, there’s nothing stopping him from giving it a go. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)

Snails spend hours smelling and tasting a potential mate. (Elliott Kennerson/KQED)

Most of the time, California newts live quiet, hidden lives in the forests of California. But every winter – and newts can live for 20 years – they return to mate in the same ponds in which they were born. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)