Just last week, Lu Lu and his panda partner Zhen Zhen set a new panda sex record of 7 minutes and 45 seconds at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Center. This week, he broke his own record with a new partner, Xi Mei, and a romp of 18 minutes and 3 seconds, earning him the name "Enduring Brother."
When your parents told you about the “birds and the bees,” they probably didn’t get into the wild and wacky specifics of the actual birds and the actual bees. Well, allow us.
The mating habits among animals vary form one species to the next, ranging from kind of romantic to squeamishly weird to downright terrifying. There's moon-walking and make-up sex, penis-fencing and post-coital cannibalism. We kid you not.
Here are some of the weirdest facts out there about animal sex....
