Humans impress each other with attractive profile pictures and witty banter, and perform courtship rituals like dinner dates or chocolates hearts on Valentines Day. The male greater sac-winged bat mixes various body secretions in his mouth, including urine, and paints it over his wing sacs to attract the females of the species. It’s pretty gross to us, but these bats probably think our profile pictures are ugly. Mating rituals in nature can be extreme, or at least extremely weird, to any creatures outside that species. In the animal kingdom, your chance of happiness and reproduction may depend on how loud you can screech or how well you arrange seashells, and you can bet they put their hearts and souls into getting it right. Atlas Obscura has a roundup of some of nature’s strangest mating rituals, from porcupines to spiders to octopuses, that keep their species going generation after generation.
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Source: neatorama