Sex can be a lot of things.

Fun, exciting, scary, a little bit tricky maybe or even downright weird.

And that’s just for us humans.

So what about the sexual exploits of other animals? More specifically, the creatures that live in the deep blue sea?

Turns out they lead full and shall we say, colourful sex lives to say the least.

Dr. Marah J. Hardt is Director of Discovery at the nonprofit Future of Fish and author of ‘Sex and the Sea’.

She joined Jonathan to discuss.

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