Disclaimer: This episode contains educational discussions of animal mating behaviors and includes anatomical terms.

Why do female praying mantises eat the male’s head after mating? Why did Australia go to war with an emu? Kari and Tory celebrate Valentine's Day with award-winning environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou, as she teaches the absolute weirdest and most intriguing mating rituals and facts in the animal kingdom. Natalie also reveals the conservation science behind these bizarre behaviors and how nature's strangest love stories connect to extinction. And fair warning: don't take dating advice from the animal kingdom.

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Chapters
0:00 Join the Band of Mythfits!
1:23 Content Warning
5:48 Animal Romance Facts
8:42 Meet Natalie Karakou
18:09 The Carp Herpes Controversy
23:34 Misconceptions of Mating
28:21 Nature's Brutal Reality
32:16 Lessons from Nature
36:51 Being Better Global Citizens
38:17 Strange Mating
41:16 Wrapping Up with Natalie
45:10 Final Thoughts and Farewell

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