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What You Don’t Know About Sperm (nautil.us)

submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/biology@mander.xyz

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well... if its mucus that's causing the resistance then the sperm need more power to overcome the resistance. So if a group clump together in a way that focuses the forces of their movement on a small section of mucus then they'll work like a group snowplow.

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

plow

Sneaky

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