We humans are naturally born romantic. We love because we know that with love, we can do everything that we can. But love can’t be called ‘love’ without any action in expressing it; that’s why we are bound to show it to the person we love so much- by saying ‘I love you’, cuddle and kiss.
Like us, animals also act the same with us when they felt love, but unlike us humans, these animals are known to be best lovers- doing everything to have the love and keep it forever.
To name a few, here are the romantic animals found on Earth:
1. Sea Otter
When it’s time to eat, rest, or sleep, otters float together on their backs in a formation called a “raft.” While rafting, otters will often grasp hands so that they don’t drift apart in their sleep.
2. Lovebird
Love Birds are the ones who’ve been together since high school but somehow never stopped being cute. These birds choose a partner when they are only two months old. They spend the rest of their lives sitting beside another and cuddling.
3. Elephant
Elephants are extremely strong, but when it comes to loved ones, they’re the definition of gentle giants. Elephant trunks have as many as 100,000 different muscles and are more sensitive than human fingertips. So it’s no surprise that when elephants are crushing on each other, they engage in friendly trunk wrestling and entwine their trunks together. They’ll also use trunks to stroke or caress each others’ heads and backs when feeling sad.
4. Great Hornbill
We’ve all met those couples that are REALLY into each other. Like, borderline obsessed with each other. In the animal kingdom, great hornbills are that couple. Their mating ritual consists of singing duets together. Once the eggs are laid and fertilized, the lady hornbill locks herself into the nest for two months, eating only what her husbands brings back and shoves through a tiny opening.
5. Bonobo
These primates are one of the few animal species to have face-to-face coupling. They also groom each other, spend a lot of time hugging, and engage in open mouth kissing, just like us.
6. Angler Fish
True love is about sticking together, even when times are hard. In the pitch blackness of the deep ocean, the tiny angler fish male could get depressed about his size. Instead, he uses it as motivation. When it’s time to mate, the male approaches the much-bigger (and scary looking) female and gives her a very special love bite. The bite releases an enzyme that melts his mouth into her body, fusing them together. And you thought tattoos were forever.
7. Snail
Although they are hermaphrodites, snails need each other to complete the fertilization process. To do so, they square off and fire mucous-covered “love darts” at each other’s face. Most darts miss, but the ones that land stimulate the snail’s female reproductive organs. Once sufficiently stimulated, the partners trade sperm cells for as long as six hours.
8. Black Vulture
Black vultures mate for life and remain together all year-round. Both males and females share the responsibility of incubating eggs, alternating 24-shifts. Vultures have even been known to attack other vultures that come around looking to steal their mates.
9. Manakin
We have seen birds that dance their feelings, but the colorful manakin is the only bird who moonwalks to impress the object of his affection. MJ fan, I supposed?
10. Bower Bird
No respectable lady wants to make babies in a filthy domicile. That’s why the male Bower Bird spends most of his time searching for trinkets that are shiny, blue or both. This carefully selected decor is placed about the nest in hopes of convincing a female to spend the night.
11. Alligator
Alligators are not so pleasant but they can still be sweet when it counts. When it’s time to get it on, bull gators will start rubbing the female’s back, tickling her cheek with water bubbles, and swimming in circles around her. They dance when they’re underneath the water.
12. Sandhill Crane
They may not be completely monogamous, but that doesn’t mean sandhill cranes aren’t romantic. Pairs bond by standing close together and “unison calling” during which they “kar-roo” out synchronized songs.
13. Shingleback Skink
These lizards are masters of taking it slow. Males spend months following the object of their affection, gently nudging and licking her to show how much they care. This innocent foreplay continues for months. Once bonded, the pair will seek each other out every single mating season, for 20 years or more. “When a shingleback skink dies, its surviving partner will remain by its mate’s dead body for days, tenderly nudging it, perhaps trying in vain to revive it, or perhaps simply grieving,” explains Pawnation.
14. Albatross
Humans aren’t the only late bloomers. Some species of albatross take up to 10 years to reach sexual maturity. Just like us, albatross teens take dating cues from their elders, observing the elaborate dancing, preening, staring, pointing, and vocalizations that make up the mating ritual. After bobbing and weaving with many partners, over the course of several years, the albatross finally selects a mate that will be their companion for life. From that point on, the birds will always return to the same place — and the same partner — when it’s time to breed.
15. Seahorse
What’s the first thing you say to your partner when you wake up in the morning? “Hello I love you” or “Get out of the bathroom I’m gonna be late”?
“Seahorse couples greet each other every morning with a unique dance that sometimes involves changing color,” explains Project Seahorse. “The couple promenades and pirouettes together for several minutes before separating for the rest of the day. They greet each other as a way to confirm the other partner is still alive, reinforce their bond and synchronize their reproductive cycles.”
16. Gentoo Penguin
Every guy knows you can’t propose without a rock. When male gentoo penguins find that special lady, they search through piles of pebbles to find the smoothest, most perfect on the beach. Once selected, the pebble is presented to his would-be mate. If she likes it, she puts it in her nest, and the two are officially going steady.
17. Butterfly Fish
Some butterfly fish will live by themselves until they find just the right mating partner. Once united, the pair will travel, hunt and mate together for the rest of their lives. If, for some reason, the two get separated, they’ll risk everything by swimming into the water column above the reef–just to find each other.
Source Credit: Distractify
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