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Be sure to read up on their reproductive cycle, easily one of the strangest in the world.
That was the deciding factor in posting it.
So weird. But nature is filled to the brim with weird.
Awesome :-) It really is weirder than fiction.
Good book I read years ago you might like. Dr. Tatiana's Advice to all Creation is a catalog of strange animal mating practices told in the style of a newspaper advice columnist.