I know you did n’t do it you want to know about ant sperm but now you know : This uncanny spaghetti monsteris spermatozoon produced by the desert ant Cataglyphis savignyi . According to anew studypublished in Biology Letters , its sperm can swim faster because it work in teams .
He bring out spermatozoan in bundles of about 50 to 90 bound together at the straits with caps of steamy protein , [ … ] Sperm bound together drown 51 percent quicker than the few that sail alone . slow sperm may not make it into the spermatheca , blowing their chance of fecundation . The researchers hypothesize that the swim team scheme may have evolved to take vantage of hurrying in number .
G - O A - N - T S - P - E - R - M ! GO ANT SPERM !
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