Reproduction Facts

While wild banana varieties can reproduce through seeds, the common cultivated banana plant primarily reproduces asexually through suckers or rhizomes. For large-scale production, human intervention is essential to propagate these plants, as they rarely produce viable seeds.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

When flatworms mate, both use their sharp, bifurcated penises to fence each other in a battle that can last up to an hour. The winner stabs the loser, injecting sperm through the body wall. The 'loser' then carries and bears the offspring—a costly role these hermaphrodites actively try to avoid.

According to historical records, a Russian peasant woman in the 1700s reportedly gave birth to 69 children over 27 pregnancies: 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. While the Guinness World Records lists this claim, no birth certificates exist to verify it.

Milt, known as a delicacy around the world, is actually fish sperm.

An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. Theoretically, a single pair of cats and their offspring can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years if none are spayed or neutered.

Only 3% of bird species have penises.

All clownfish are born male. When the dominant female in a group dies, the dominant male will transform into a female to take her place—making Finding Nemo's plot biologically impossible.