{"id":617289,"date":"2026-09-16T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:16:15","slug":"do-any-animals-mate-with-two-partners-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617289\/","title":{"rendered":"Do any animals mate with two partners at once?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some fish, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/amphibians\/wirdest-frogss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frogs <\/a>and other externally fertilising animals, it\u2019s not unusual for females to be smothered by multiple males jostling for the best position to fertilise her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/do-eggs-really-need-sperm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in some internally fertilising species, individuals of either sex may copulate with more than one mate in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p>In only one, though \u2013 the North American dotted wolf spider \u2013 are females routinely inseminated by two males simultaneously, something made possible by the females having two reproductive openings.<\/p>\n<p>Courting a potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/cannibal-animals-creatures-that-eat-their-own-kind\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cannibalistic<\/a> female is perilous for the males, which is why some suitors adopt the strategy of loitering in the shadows while their rivals take their chances.<\/p>\n<p>Only when the female has been subdued will the observer nip in to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>North American dotted wolf spider \u00a9 James Gerholdt\/ Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In some fish, frogs and other externally fertilising animals, it\u2019s not unusual for females to be smothered by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-617289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}