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Essentially their entire mating cycle is what causes this. They’ve got a gland behind the eye that puts them into mating mode and once it starts it never turns off until they overdose on sex hormone.

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TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Holy shit what a way to go.

Get horny > have sex > orgasm > keep orgasming > die of too much orgasm

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- jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Living the dream.
  
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ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I wonder what would happen if you removed the gland? How long could they live and how big could they get?

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- roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They’ve done that and they lived twice as long. washingtonpost.com/…/a8fabbce-0d76-400f-a9b4-e95b…
  
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  - ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Fascinating!
    
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