Mating Social Behaviors

Transient

Brief encounters for mating with no lasting association between individuals

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Sri Lankan Elephant

Sri Lanka's great gentle engineer

Sumatran Elephant

Sumatra's gentle forest giant

African Bush Elephant

Big ears, big impact.

Grey Mouse Lemur

Madagascar's pocket primate of the night

Wild Boar

Rooting, roaming, reshaping ecosystems

Bowhead Whale

The Icebreaker with a 200-Year Life

Immortal Jellyfish

The jellyfish that hits "reset."

Lungfish

Breathe like a fish, live like a survivor

Locust

Small hoppers, huge impact

White-tail deer

Flag the tail, vanish into the woods

Horsefly

Fast flyers with a fierce bite

Wood Bison

Boreal muscle, northern resilience.

Salmon Shark

Warm heart, cold ocean hunter

Spinner Shark

Spin, surge, strike-coastal hunter

Garden Eel

Burrows, colonies, and current-fed eels

Rock Crab

California's hard-clawed rock crab

Dung Beetle

Nature's cleanup crew-on the roll

Key Deer

Small deer, big Keys legacy

Lion's Mane Jellyfish

A living mane from cold seas

Crabeater Seal

The krill-sieving seal of the pack ice

Mantella Frog

Madagascar's living warning labels

Mealybug

Tiny waxy sap-thieves of the plant world

Hardhead Catfish

Brackish whiskers, venomous spines.

Bee

Small insects, massive pollination power