According to statistics, 50 thousand people die during sex each year. The thing though is that for humans there are various reasons that could account for that including cardiac arrest and stroke. So also, there are many animals that die during sex or after because of their mating pattern which leads to sexual suicide.
This suicidal mating practice amongst animals can happen for various reasons. While some animals don’t get satisfied until they drop dead, others perform better when they are about to die while others mate until their immune system crashes and shut down.
Here are 7 animals that die during sex or after
1. The Male Antechinus
These animals are among those that work until they drop dead. In fact, there is now fear that they may go into extinction because of how they die as a result of their sex life and practices.
The mouse-like creature only gets to have sex once in its lifetime but it ensures to do until it dies. No, it doesn’t spend the entire 14 hours with a single woman but runs from one to the other getting its share as its clock ticks off. You will expect the guy to relax as soon as its system begins to disintegrate but no, it keeps going and soon it’s fur will fall off and there will be internal bleeding and then infection as a result of a shut down of the immune system.
Still, he will be looking for some more fun but in his condition, the women would flee from him and before long, he like almost all the other males in the area would end up dead while the women live to give birth to others that would be just like their fathers again.
2. Praying Mantis
For humans, the best way to avoid heartbreak is not to love but for the praying mantis, the best way to stay alive literally is to avoid love. The male praying mantis gets to like others on the list, have sex only once in its life and that is thanks to the female mantis.
Most of the time, the female praying mantis practices Sexual cannibalism by eating off the head of her lover when making sex to her. There are many theories that have been provided for this as while some believe that by chopping off his head he gets to perform better, others believe it ensures that the eggs are more fertile when she gets to lay them finally.
3. Labord’s Chameleon
These live on the fast lane as far as many other species of chameleons are concerned and die there. You will be right to say that they are just born to have sex and just die. All these get to happen in just five months or a maximum of six.
For the Furcifer labordi, life is not just brief but also hard as there is the competition to lay your offspring before time runs out on you. Because of this, the male has to fight each other just to get laid and in the process, one will die. The one that survives he may have to again fight the woman if she has mated already and he may lose his life. If, however, he gets to successfully get laid, hormone overdose would kill him as he would fall off the tree and die. No matter what, once it’s time to have sex for the chameleon, it is also time to due.
Before you think it is any easier for the female, she is also living only to lay eggs and die. Making love for them may just be another form of war.
4. Australian Redback Spiders
The story of these spiders is a little different and a little more interesting. While sex does not kill them, they sacrifice themselves for their women after it. For example, once a guy finishes mating, he will commit sexual suicide by allowing the female to devour him literally. No, it’s not caused by ecstasy but so that he will have more offspring.
What if he decides to run? He will get to survive but not to another mating season as he will be killed by predators or other natural causes.
5. Dark Fishing Spider
For some, you know that they sex themselves until they get tired and shut down their immune system while for others it is the women that kill them. For the Dark Fishing Spider, they seem to be living just to have sex and then die.
Once it is able to transfer its sperm to the woman, the male spider quietly lies down and dies. It is not clear whether or not it’s life is in the sperm or it is doing it in the name of love because once it dies, it’s mate feeds on him. In fact, most times the brother gets to die when he is still inside the female and the sperm is still being transferred.
Because the men outnumber the women, there are always those waiting for the first to finish so that they get their turn to get laid and fed on. The third on the list may get eaten without necessarily getting anything.
7. Honeybees
With the honeybees, they get to get laid once and they die. But for most of them, it is worth it dying since they die after bedding their queen. Once the queen comes out in search of mating partners, the drones would swarm around her to have a go. What happens is that the brave and fast one would mount her mid-air and by the time he ejaculates, his testicles would explode and his endophallus would be left behind inside of the queen as he falls to the ground and dies.
So naturally you would expect that the other guys around would learn, right? On the contrary, the next would take out the part of his brother that was left in the queen and then it would be his turn. Because this is the only time that the queen would have men making her bed, she would mate with as much as possible and then store the entire sperms she can gather for use all through her life.
