Snake sperm plug
20 May Copulatory plugs are handy little things for males to have: Once they’re in the female, plugs stop sperm leakage and prevent females from mating with other males. For a male red-sided garter snake, it can cost up to 18 percent of his daily energy expenditure.
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Male Snakes Spend Mega Calories When They Mate
A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, sperm plug, vaginal plug, sement or sphragis is gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species.
Snake Sex Is an Energy Intensive Workout for Males
Description:Friesen Every spring, red-sided garter snakes leave their hibernation burrows to engage in a frenzied jumble of mating. But a new study finds that doing the deed is no easy feat for males; in fact, they can spend up to a whopping 18 percent of their daily energy making special plugs that increase their chances of mating success. Male red-sided garter snakes Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis are known to temporarily seal the females' reproductive body openings with a "large, gelatinous copulatory plug" after mating, according to the study.
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