Weird Nature - Bizarre Breeding

The second documentary in the amazing Weird Nature series, showing many of nature's more unusual breeding practices and mating rituals

Tags Animal Mating Nature Sex Weird Nature

Bizarre Breeding is the second documentary in the highly praised 6-part BBC series Weird Nature.

This part explores nature's weirder breeding practices and mating rituals, from the outlandish to the macabre. Topics include the scorpion courtship dance; the Bower birds' accumulation of blue items to show off to females; mice frantically searching for females to mate with until they die from exhaustion; the Praying Mantis' eating of the male partner after copulation; aquatic gender bending; and much more.

• Marvelous Motion
• Bizarre Breeding
• Fantastic Feeding
• Devious Defences
• Puzzling Partners
• Peculiar Potions

Technical note: This documentary is hosted on YouKu, which can be a bit slow for us here in the west. It is recommended to start and pause YouKu videos and then watch them when they have buffered for a while.

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