On the list of super sexy looking animals, maybe we have the jaguar, a fancy stallion, the flamboyant cuttlefish, and perhaps the blue porcelain crab. The lowly box jelly probably doesn’t even rank. But what they lack in splendor, they make up for in swagger!
One particular species of box jelly, Copula sivickisi, has a special trick up their sleeve. The dudes can DANCE!
(Fun fact – if you have a picture of a jelly upside-down, it looks like it is dancing!)
I mean, sorta? In a paper written in German that I did not read, it’s allegedly called a “wedding dance” and in English it’s described as a fella reaching out his tentacles to a lady, then he pulls their partner around in what I can only imagine as a jelly tango. (If you google “jelly tango”, you will find sex toys, perfect!)
Eventually, he pulls her in for some mouth-on-mouth (or manubrium-on-manubrium, if you want to be technical) humping. He gives her his sperm, they de-attach, and maybe go mouth-bang some other jellies because they are jellies and don’t have any semblance of monogamy.
If you’re dying to see a video… one technically exists. It’s weird and won’t embed here, but the soundtrack is AMAZING. Watch here!
Sources
Sexy Science Facts 