Creature Feature

True ROARmance

From slimy love unicorns to sexy eight-legged twerking, we’re looking at all the beautiful and bizarre mating habits of all sorts of creatures, gastropods, arthropods, birds, and mammals with our guests Carolina Barlow &amp; Devin Leary. Footnotes: <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/2015/03/09/snaillovedart01.ngsversion.1426074744940.adapt.1900.1.jpg">Snail love dart, aw yeah... </a> <a href="https://www.livescience.com/42653-spider-mating-twerking.html">Black widow males twerk for love!</a> <a href="https://www.photonics.com/Articles/UV_light_reveals_mating_secrets_of_jumping_spiders/a39318">Cosmophasis umbratica rave! </a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfHAJzktDrI">Twelve-wired bird of paradise video</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYKv23Q-sbg&amp;t=55s">Wilson’s bird of paradise video</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTmHtxJpEWE">Six-plumed bird of paradise video</a> <a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-rubbish-sperm-of-the-naked-mole-rat">Naked mole rat mutant sperm</a> <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2014/07/23/these-mice-excel-at-assembling-the-ideal-sperm-swim-teams/">Mouse sperm swim teams </a> <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/real-males-eat-yogurt/">You know what they say about mice who eat yogurt... </a> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

We take a critter’s eye view to explore how animal behavior parallels humans. Join comedians and science-lovers as we get inside the minds of animals