When Sex is Hard

When it comes to sex things can be complicated, but for the three species we are looking at today, sex is really hard. SciShow Valentines: http://store.dftba.com/products/scishow-valentine-postcards Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Fatima Iqbal, Linnea Boyev, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Chris Peters, and Philippe von Bergen. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://www.pandasinternational.org/wptemp/program-areas-2/captive-breeding-program/ http://www.livescience.com/18015-bowerbird-mating-illusion.html http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2012/jan/19/1 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/how-to-make-a-baby-panda/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/12610/why-it-so-hard-pandas-get-pregnant http://www.pandasinternational.org/wptemp/education-2/panda-facts/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150310-snails-reproduction-sex-animals-science-evolution/ http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/14/wild-romance-weird-animal-courtship-and-mating-rituals/ http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/13/sea-slug-regrow-penis-animal-behavior-science/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/what-males-will-do-meet-the-mate-munchers/953/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691512/ http://cnx.org/contents/G7v3GrxX@3/Violent-Mating-Traumatic-Insem http://news.sciencemag.org/evolution/2011/08/immune-system-protects-female-bedbugs-traumatic-sex http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/01/04/ncbi-rofl-traumatic-insemination-and-sexual-conflict-in-the-bed-bug-cimex-lectularius/#.VnL4z9I4Gt8 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.10118/abstract Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_Southern_Elephant_Seals_in_combat.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BIRD_PARK_8_0189.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantis_Tenodera_aridifolia01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bed_bug,_Cimex_lectularius.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traumatic_insemination_1_edit1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traumatic_insemination_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20110707221304!Chlamydera_nuchalis_bower_-_Mount_Carbine.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satin_Bowerbird_nest.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chlamydera_nuchalis_-_Mount_Carbine.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_Panda_eating_Bamboo.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chengdu-pandas-d16.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_Panda_2004-03-2.jpg