Weird Nature

S01E02 Bizarre Breeding

Explore the odd world of nature's strangest mating rituals—dancing scorpions, courting birds offering trinkets as gifts, mice that mate until they die, and a mantis that devours its mate. Meet frogs that raise their young beneath their skin, fish that leap from water to lay eggs on leaves, and a bullfrog father who serves as lifeguard to his offspring. There are fish that switch sex, others that bubble-wrap their young, male hamsters acting as midwives, and even a male that gets pregnant. Then discover a shrew that forms a living daisy chain from its own young.