Texas-horned lizards are funny in the way that when they mate, it’s kinda what we consider “human” the way they do it. In fact, it’s all over the animal kingdom. Courtship. Or in normal terms, impressing a chick so she’ll go out with you. Or in the Texas-horned lizard’s case, impressing a fellow lizard lady to carry on the bloodline, as is required for the species’ survival.

The way the lizard flirts (or expresses interest in a female) is kinda silly.

Funny to think about, though. It just bobs its head up and down. At the end of the day, it is up to females when it comes to whether or not they’re willing to lay 44 eggs with a dude. It’s simple. They’ll accept, do the birds and the bees (which you’ll learn about in grade 6), lay said 44 eggs, live happily ever after until a hawk or something swoops in and eats half of them. Or they’ll reject the male outright, either wagging their tail to show disinterest or just straight up dipping outta there. After the female breeds, it’ll outright reject all other males attempting to take its hand in reptile marriage, only mating once per year. The male would leave too, living out the rest of his days at another anthill until he goes to lizard heaven and one of his sons takes the torch, and continues on their legacy with another bob of its head.

Once every year in spring, off the coast of Australia, the leafy sea dragon will particapate in a act called the “mirror dance”, the mirror dance is a activity where the sea dragon mirrors every dance move to move that the opposite sex does to attract the other orgiansm. At the end of the mirror dance the male would proceed to get the female pregnant. And in about 2 months, out comes 250 bright pink eggs out of the women's ovaries. After that stage the women sea dragon has to carefully place the eggs onto the male’s tail using her ovipositor (the long snout the leafy sea dragon has to catch food) then the male will connect the eggs to a broad patch, on his tail to supply the youngins with oxygen until they grow up and can survive by themselves. My animal is better than the other animals that are on the MMM because my organism has way more of a unique way of mating than other animals that I'm going up against.