A surprisingly large number of animals kill each other after sex

That reminds me… according to “Functional necrophilia: a profitable anuran reproductive strategy?

the males of the small Amazonian frog Rhinella proboscidea can promote the ejection of oocytes from the abdominal cavities of dead females and fertilize them.

Yes, they can successfully reproduce by jizzing over eggs they’ve squeezed out of dead females.

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