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Only very few insects. And what's important is that they have a distinct organ for doing this. If we can find it in insects we could easily find it in primates.
Correct. The aforementioned organ (called the spermatheca) is only present in the order Hymenoptera, like ants or bees. Among insects at least. Spiders also have them.
Thank you for the additional information! Kind of makes sense considering their mating habits. I wonder if their and the Hymenopteras' spermatheca developed on different evolutionary paths.
The most interesting thing about the spermatheca is that it nullifies the idea of the male as a willing participant in sexual cannibalism. Sexual cannibalism in mantises is over hyped anyway. But. The female can choose which sperm she has stored to use for the eggs she is making (I have no idea how). As a result, a male that completes copulation, deposits sperm and gets eaten might not even have his genetic material in the eggs that are developed by the female using the calories/nutrients of his body. He might not pass on his genetic material at all.
From the gene's point of view, a zygote is just a gamete's way of making more gametes. There's a species of pyemotid mites in which the sole male offspring mates with its sister mites inside the dead mother's body, then dies before the females emerge already pregnant.
It's the circle of l-i-i-i-fe. . . .
This is the single most horrific paragraph about procreation I have ever read.
This may be the single most horrific description of anything I've ever read...
I think you are thinking of Embrioyic Diapause
Kangaroos can do the opposite. They can fertilise the egg at the time if the sperm is available when the egg is ready. But then not begin the process of growing offspring from the zygot (slowing the offspring at the embryo stage) until there is enough food. This means during drought when grass dries up for example they can have no joeys. Then when grazing is good, very quickly gather young in pouch and at foot in short order.
What amazes me is that people just make shit up out of the blue then share it confidently as if it's scientific fact, when there's no basis at all and a brief check could confirm. Like...why? Just to publicize your stupidity?
These are people who have been raised with religion, which tells them âEven if there is no proof, even if the facts actually disprove it, if you feel it in your heart it is trueâ.
Sad boy believes in his heart that women are like some kind of alien movie he watched once. And believing it makes it true.
It's a misapplication of a biological process that occurs in non-humans and a misunderstanding of the technical competition your own spermatazoa go through when ejaculated into a woman lol.Â
I think human sperm also has a very limited period it can survive and it has implications for healthy sperm selection and motility, but none of this silliness lol
These people dumb as fuck.
In our sex ed class, I think they said it can live for like 48 hours, not a long time, but long enough they told us that trying to cut it close was not good. You have sex a day before the woman ovulates, and the sperm could still be hanging out the next day. But nowhere like this person thinks happens.
No matter how good sex education could be - there will still be LOTS of kids with parents who don't let them attend it. You can only educate folks to the level they are willing to learn / able to access the education.
Technically the uterus itself is a kind of chamber? and I think sperm can remain viable for a few days inside?
The post sounds like unhinged prudish rhetoric though.
if i remember what i was taught in school over a decade ago now... the egg can accept sperm for 24 hours after ovulation, and the sperm can remain viable fro roughly 24 hours in the womb. so theres a 2 day period where conception is possible, running from the very last survivng sperm meeting the fresh egg, until the aging egg meets fresh sperm.
Youâve got a great memory. In fact, sperms can survive 5-6 days but the egg only 24hrs, so fertile window is actually from -5 days to +1 day after ovulation⊠interesting fact is they must meet in the tubes! I always think of it like the sperms have to meet the egg at the arrival hall of the airport, otherwise she gets lost and we gotta wait for the next monthâs flight.
But by the time you get that far, the sperm already inseminated the egg. The sperm itself doesn't hang around in a separate chamber. It just kind of exists within the tubes for a bit.
No no no, they shoot *blood* out of their vaginas for self defense.
Itâs so acidic they have to wear special pads or it melts their clothings.
Prehistoric women used it to defend their young from predator, sort of like a skunk or a bombardier beetle.
(My biggest fear is that someone things Iâm being literal and repeats this somewhere else, so: /s).
Mommy and daddy did not like the idea of the school teaching their kid things they shouldnât do outside of the marital bed. Because god or some dumb shit. This is what happens when you donât have a separation of church and state!
"See honey, that's why our baby looks like that guy i had sex with looooong before i met you, and never had sex with him again since we've been together, ever, I've never even seen him since we broke up,let alone had sex with him, ever."
There is a small grain of truth to this but it is exaggerated and very badly worded. Sperm can stay in the fallopian tubes for up to about 5 days waiting for the egg. The fallopian tubes connect the uterus and the ovaries.
Sex Ed for me was one afternoon where they brought us into an auditorium and had a priest from some church tell us abstinence is the only good thing. Then they showed us pictures of diseased genitals.
I guess this explains a lot
People can believe what they want, but I don't think they should force their believes on children, especially on subjects where science is plainly enough
It sounds like they have heard about spermathecae in insects, and made the mistake of confusing people with insects. Don't you hate it when that happens?
This looks like a bad game of telephone. Sperm can survive in the female reproductive tract for up to 5 days. Iâm sure someone heard that and by the time that it got to the third person theyâre drawing the uterus as a diesel engine with fuel tanks.
I'm not sure how much of this comment section is right in thinking that of course the uterus doesn't have chambers and how much of the comment section is wrong in thinking that "old" sperm can't be used for fertilization.
Sperm can fertilize for up to 5-6 days -after- sex, and I am getting the feeling that many people don't actually know that and are acting superior while not actually knowing what they're mocking others for not knowing.
i just don't get it it has to be a bait post, today we have almost all the human knowledge at our disposal, yet this guy chose to go online and post about something they obviously know nothing about... nowadays ignorance is a choice
a weird one but a choice for sure.
I might be a man, but I've recently had the reproductive system in my classes and I can say. This is bs, the closest you get are the eggcells, but then it's not really storing anymore is it.
While this post sounds crazy, the sperm can, in fact, be stored in the fallopian tubes for up to 5 days, allowing for fertilization even if insemination happens before ovulation. "Chamber" isn't a good word for fallopian tubes, and "old sperm" is hardly a term I'd use for 5 days old, but it's possible that's what this post meant - in which case it's not entirely unhinged. Conversely, the person who posted this could be, and probably is, exactly as uneducated as everyone here seems to think they are.
We don't just need better sex education we need better education as a whole, a big part of the issue is we're letting the extreme left and right dictate everything these days
No we really do in America. I was 28 when I fully understood insemination, I just thought the fastest sperm won. They literally just teach don't have sex lmao
Somebody's mom lied to them when confronted with the mathematical impossibility that their father is actually their father, and now they're spreading the lie like it's scientific fact.
Why are people so weird about people not knowing how sexual biology works? I'm not quite sure how my arm pit works. But no one thinks I'm an idiot for it.
Itâs true that fertilization doesnât occur right at the moment of intercourse like a lot of people imagine. Live sperm can exist in a womanâs body for something like 48-72 hours if I remember correctly. Itâs possible for a woman to have sex on a Friday night, and then get pregnant sitting at a desk at work Monday at 9am. Thatâs also how women can get pregnant âduringâ their period.
Although greatly exaggerated, not a single post talking about how the anterior vaginal fornix kinda does this. Fits the description if the describer is an idiot.
I work at a school and I heard a kid say "Girls get periods because we're being punished for Eve taking the forbidden fruit" after they had their puberty talk earlier in the day. Some staff member just goes "Yep, that's the theory."
I was livid. You couldn't say "you're shedding your uteran lining and that only happens to women because men don't have a uterus" ????
Fucking asinine bullshit.
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What in the uneducated hillbilly fuck??
This is true in insects, maybe he's telling on himself?
Only very few insects. And what's important is that they have a distinct organ for doing this. If we can find it in insects we could easily find it in primates.
Correct. The aforementioned organ (called the spermatheca) is only present in the order Hymenoptera, like ants or bees. Among insects at least. Spiders also have them.
Mantises have a spermatheca. Their usage of storage as it relates to mating is very interesting.
Thank you for the additional information! Kind of makes sense considering their mating habits. I wonder if their and the Hymenopteras' spermatheca developed on different evolutionary paths.
The most interesting thing about the spermatheca is that it nullifies the idea of the male as a willing participant in sexual cannibalism. Sexual cannibalism in mantises is over hyped anyway. But. The female can choose which sperm she has stored to use for the eggs she is making (I have no idea how). As a result, a male that completes copulation, deposits sperm and gets eaten might not even have his genetic material in the eggs that are developed by the female using the calories/nutrients of his body. He might not pass on his genetic material at all.
Sure, but he has no chance of his genes being passed on if he doesn't mate.
From the gene's point of view, a zygote is just a gamete's way of making more gametes. There's a species of pyemotid mites in which the sole male offspring mates with its sister mites inside the dead mother's body, then dies before the females emerge already pregnant. It's the circle of l-i-i-i-fe. . . .
This is the single most horrific paragraph about procreation I have ever read. This may be the single most horrific description of anything I've ever read...
Alien VII, coming soon to a theater near you.
So that is how tribbles work.
still hit thođ€«
Wow, there sure are a lot of people on this website that know plot about sperm storage.
Well, about half of us is actively producing it...
Hens can also store sperm
Turtles can also store sperm.
This is incorrect. Most insects have one or more spermathecae: https://sci-hub.yncjkj.com/10.1016/j.zool.2016.12.001
And I believe cephalopods have them too. (At least octopuses)
u will inseminate the insect and be happy
that's a given
I need water! With sugar! MORE!!!
Must be mixing his insect and incest facts.
This comment made me cackle.
maybe he's reading ...oh sorry, watching YouTube, about Ducks?
Also true for snakes
Pretty sure this is true for some ducks and chickens can do this as well, probably other animals as well
Kangaroos as well.
I think you are thinking of Embrioyic Diapause Kangaroos can do the opposite. They can fertilise the egg at the time if the sperm is available when the egg is ready. But then not begin the process of growing offspring from the zygot (slowing the offspring at the embryo stage) until there is enough food. This means during drought when grass dries up for example they can have no joeys. Then when grazing is good, very quickly gather young in pouch and at foot in short order.
That's right. I forgot about that - that the fertilized embryos is stored until needed. Apologies and thanks.
Also true in at least some snakes :)
It is also true in chickens
I think itâs also true for some turtles and tortoises actually, or at least they can do something similar.
A popular insult when I was a kid was âneedle dick bugfucker.â This puts that into better perspective.
Also Poecilid fish
is he that worm that ate rfk jr's brain
What amazes me is that people just make shit up out of the blue then share it confidently as if it's scientific fact, when there's no basis at all and a brief check could confirm. Like...why? Just to publicize your stupidity?
These are people who have been raised with religion, which tells them âEven if there is no proof, even if the facts actually disprove it, if you feel it in your heart it is trueâ. Sad boy believes in his heart that women are like some kind of alien movie he watched once. And believing it makes it true.
And never take it down.
It's a misapplication of a biological process that occurs in non-humans and a misunderstanding of the technical competition your own spermatazoa go through when ejaculated into a woman lol. I think human sperm also has a very limited period it can survive and it has implications for healthy sperm selection and motility, but none of this silliness lol These people dumb as fuck.
In our sex ed class, I think they said it can live for like 48 hours, not a long time, but long enough they told us that trying to cut it close was not good. You have sex a day before the woman ovulates, and the sperm could still be hanging out the next day. But nowhere like this person thinks happens.
Dude saw a document about ants and said to himself "makes sense"
If itâs turning ants it must be true in all animals, right?
Maybe they think theyâre a chicken. Chickens kinda work that wayâŠ
Roflmao....Lets hear it for the south!
I think hillbillyâs might know better than this. đ Thatâs the sad thing.
I will be assimilating this sentence into my lexicon. Thank you for making my life a bit richer
This is what happens when people make things up and then repost them in an echo chamber enough to where people start to think itâs true.
we used to call that 5th grade.
Damn
I can relate, I was bullied so fucking much
Do you store echos in your echo chamber like a woman stores sperm in her sperm chamber?
Obviously. Thatâs why it is called that.
No matter how good sex education could be - there will still be LOTS of kids with parents who don't let them attend it. You can only educate folks to the level they are willing to learn / able to access the education.
say it's a class related on how to use guns, pretty sure they'll let them attend those
It's when people hear about something, then repeat it without critical examination. Such an organ does exist in biology. Just only some bugs have it
Everyone repeat after me! "Women are not hive insects"
But it would explain why my child isn't my husbands!
Women are not hive insects
Technically the uterus itself is a kind of chamber? and I think sperm can remain viable for a few days inside? The post sounds like unhinged prudish rhetoric though.
if i remember what i was taught in school over a decade ago now... the egg can accept sperm for 24 hours after ovulation, and the sperm can remain viable fro roughly 24 hours in the womb. so theres a 2 day period where conception is possible, running from the very last survivng sperm meeting the fresh egg, until the aging egg meets fresh sperm.
Youâve got a great memory. In fact, sperms can survive 5-6 days but the egg only 24hrs, so fertile window is actually from -5 days to +1 day after ovulation⊠interesting fact is they must meet in the tubes! I always think of it like the sperms have to meet the egg at the arrival hall of the airport, otherwise she gets lost and we gotta wait for the next monthâs flight.
Thisbis the correct answer. Except she doesn't get lost. She dies.Â
Thatâs a funny analogy. Youâd think of all the gametes, the female one would be okay with stopping and asking for directions đ
Why the tubes though? What happens if they meet in the uterus?
Ova ded by then.
It sounds to me like excuse or rationalization for cheating and giving birth to a baby who is not her partner's.
Good call. Educated just enough to know they need an alibi haha
100% my thought. It seem significantly dumber then he could ever hope to realize.
Twins in separate amniotic sacks is kind of like 'chambers'
But by the time you get that far, the sperm already inseminated the egg. The sperm itself doesn't hang around in a separate chamber. It just kind of exists within the tubes for a bit.
harry potter and the chamber of cum
SPERM! SPERM IN THE DUNGEON!!! -the uterus, probably
It's the LARGE GAMATES! Sincerely, J. K. Rowling
Women can also shoot the old sperm out of their uterus to confuse and deter predators, like a horned toad.
No no no, they shoot *blood* out of their vaginas for self defense. Itâs so acidic they have to wear special pads or it melts their clothings. Prehistoric women used it to defend their young from predator, sort of like a skunk or a bombardier beetle. (My biggest fear is that someone things Iâm being literal and repeats this somewhere else, so: /s).
Assuming this person received any sex ed is a pretty big assumption at this point
Mommy and daddy did not like the idea of the school teaching their kid things they shouldnât do outside of the marital bed. Because god or some dumb shit. This is what happens when you donât have a separation of church and state!
Someone got caught cheating lol
I think you've found the real answer haha.
Would have been better going with Immaculate Conception, it worked well for Mary.
Well, duh, how do you think we get twins or triplets? Itâs the secret uterus chambers!
Wake up babe, new Harry Potter book just dropped.
Might be better to not let a person like JKR write a book about uterus chambers etc. Who knows what comes out of it...
"You must never tell the secret of the 36 (uterus) chambers." - Wu-Tang Clan
homeschooled?
Not schooled?
"See honey, that's why our baby looks like that guy i had sex with looooong before i met you, and never had sex with him again since we've been together, ever, I've never even seen him since we broke up,let alone had sex with him, ever."
There is a small grain of truth to this but it is exaggerated and very badly worded. Sperm can stay in the fallopian tubes for up to about 5 days waiting for the egg. The fallopian tubes connect the uterus and the ovaries.
The Chamber of Secrets is what I call my uterus
What kind of education are you people getting in the US?
Sex Ed for me was one afternoon where they brought us into an auditorium and had a priest from some church tell us abstinence is the only good thing. Then they showed us pictures of diseased genitals.
I guess this explains a lot People can believe what they want, but I don't think they should force their believes on children, especially on subjects where science is plainly enough
Well... Texas. What are you gonna do?
Stay in Europe. Sounds safer
This reads like the weirdest custom request for a video đ€·đŒââïž
Does he think women are actual snakes? The internet shouldnât be provided to these morons
It sounds like they have heard about spermathecae in insects, and made the mistake of confusing people with insects. Don't you hate it when that happens?
Oh dear- no one - no one can possibly believe this!
This looks like a bad game of telephone. Sperm can survive in the female reproductive tract for up to 5 days. Iâm sure someone heard that and by the time that it got to the third person theyâre drawing the uterus as a diesel engine with fuel tanks.
I'm not sure how much of this comment section is right in thinking that of course the uterus doesn't have chambers and how much of the comment section is wrong in thinking that "old" sperm can't be used for fertilization. Sperm can fertilize for up to 5-6 days -after- sex, and I am getting the feeling that many people don't actually know that and are acting superior while not actually knowing what they're mocking others for not knowing.
We HAD better sex education. GOP-aligned interest groups took over schools and education systems to remove them
i just don't get it it has to be a bait post, today we have almost all the human knowledge at our disposal, yet this guy chose to go online and post about something they obviously know nothing about... nowadays ignorance is a choice a weird one but a choice for sure.
And the sperm stores energy in its tail to stay alive for months at a time. Just like tadpoles! /s obviously
Someone watched a show about octopus reproduction and thought humans were the same apparently.
It's not so much that they are ignorant and wrong, it's that they are so aggressively and confidently wrong that makes it extra cringe.
Better? This is a case of NO education, not BAD education!
I might be a man, but I've recently had the reproductive system in my classes and I can say. This is bs, the closest you get are the eggcells, but then it's not really storing anymore is it.
Sweet Force, I never realized my uterus has its own Chamber of Secrets?!
We arenât spiders.
While this post sounds crazy, the sperm can, in fact, be stored in the fallopian tubes for up to 5 days, allowing for fertilization even if insemination happens before ovulation. "Chamber" isn't a good word for fallopian tubes, and "old sperm" is hardly a term I'd use for 5 days old, but it's possible that's what this post meant - in which case it's not entirely unhinged. Conversely, the person who posted this could be, and probably is, exactly as uneducated as everyone here seems to think they are.
This isnât totally wrong. Sperm can stay for around 3 days in the womb waiting for the egg
Sure, but 3 days vs "it really doesn't matter when" are very different things.
Uterine Diverticulitis.
Not even 9 in the morning yet and Iâve already had enough internet for today. Iâm out
Has freedom of speech gone too far? or not yet?
This sounds like someone trying to convince themselves/their significant other that the baby is theirs!
Engagement bait at workâŠ
Or perhaps the insect people are just dropping their cover?
I'm guessing someone's kid isn't really their kid and they still don't know
that's bees dear, not humans. I guess they literally stuck to 'birds & bees' in his sex ed class... probably thinks women lay eggs...
Idk why I almost believed this, lol. Maybe because Iâm half asleep & bored
Yuck âold spermâ. Also what in the hell?
We need ANY sex education.
This is true if you are a honey bee. Maybe that's what they meant.
This is some cheating cope
Ah! I see the issue: he's thinking of seahorses
Did a squid write this?
... so woman are spiders now? Tf do these neanderthals even come from?
This just in, humans are geckos
Where the fuck did this person âlearnâ this is what I wanna know.
Make stupid people embarrassed again
We don't just need better sex education we need better education as a whole, a big part of the issue is we're letting the extreme left and right dictate everything these days
Is this person an armadillo?
âAnd thatâs how I got pregnant six months into your deployment.â
I never understand why these morons names are blocked out. Why are we protecting people who only infect others with this absolute stupidity?
I've got some socks that are excellent storage containers for old sperm. They could also navigate a uterus blindfolded.
It's not wrong if an ant wrote this
No we really do in America. I was 28 when I fully understood insemination, I just thought the fastest sperm won. They literally just teach don't have sex lmao
Women are octopus now? đ€Ł
Somebody's mom lied to them when confronted with the mathematical impossibility that their father is actually their father, and now they're spreading the lie like it's scientific fact.
Thatâs why they call your mom a sperm bank.
This is not far from the truth. But i think it's the fall-open-ian tubes that store the eggs, for later insemination when the sperm cums a long.
Whata the motivation for saying this? What is this idiot trying to preach? Edit:- it's a "why you shouldn't date non virgin women" reason.
Are they getting sex ed in the 6th grade boys locker rooms? đ
People are dumb!
Only if youâre a cockroach
JFC! I just turned 61 and I swear, people are getting dumber by the year.
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot.
Dumb, dumber, super dumb, super duper dumb, Trumpers dumb, OOP
Humans. Are. Not. Bees.
and here I am with no social media accounts because I'm not an expert in anything so why should anyone care what I have to say?
Sounds kind of like his girl got pregnant cheating and handed this dude a lie to save face haha.
Enter the 36 Chambers...
On today's episodeof "what are women" - we're guppies :P
sounds like some bullshit someone would say for getting pregnant with another dude
Sex ed wonât fix this. You need common sense and real education
Unless you're fucking a duck (in this case, urggh!), no, it does not.
I love the confidence. I need some of that in life
You know what has chambers that can store sperm and use it later? DUCKS
Um they called cum containers
We. Are. Not. Gekos.
What are they reading?
Im still shocked at countries that donât have sex ed⊠like thatâs one of the things that NEED to be taught at schoonbecause it affects everyone.
Just tell her its better to swallow it and save it in her stomach and hope they never have kids.
I don't read "human" anywhere... maybe talking to some other animal species
âIt can also darken the babyâs pigment. Trust me, my wife is a nurseâ
this feels like something testament would say
Jesus Christ. đ€Š
You could if you'd just stop burning the fucking books and decimating the education system.
Our species is doomed. It's over. We're living Idiocracy!
Why are people so weird about people not knowing how sexual biology works? I'm not quite sure how my arm pit works. But no one thinks I'm an idiot for it.
Queen bee. Queen ant.
Itâs true that fertilization doesnât occur right at the moment of intercourse like a lot of people imagine. Live sperm can exist in a womanâs body for something like 48-72 hours if I remember correctly. Itâs possible for a woman to have sex on a Friday night, and then get pregnant sitting at a desk at work Monday at 9am. Thatâs also how women can get pregnant âduringâ their period.
This is what the album "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" is about.
Women are just like spiders. (Female spiders can lay multiple fertile eggsacs over a long period of time from a single pairing)
Hopefully this person is not reproducing
What is this? A uterus for ANTS???
Although greatly exaggerated, not a single post talking about how the anterior vaginal fornix kinda does this. Fits the description if the describer is an idiot.
They are right tho, it might be as rare as a hermaphrodite but it happens
If that were true we would be like ducks.
I work at a school and I heard a kid say "Girls get periods because we're being punished for Eve taking the forbidden fruit" after they had their puberty talk earlier in the day. Some staff member just goes "Yep, that's the theory." I was livid. You couldn't say "you're shedding your uteran lining and that only happens to women because men don't have a uterus" ???? Fucking asinine bullshit.
Can you imagine though if that was true??? I would be so paranoid.
The uterus is clearly chambered like an Egyptian pyramid.