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Study shows sperm doesn’t swim like an eel, more like “playful otters” – Happy
A new study has found that sperm doesn’t swim like eels but “playful otters” that spiral in corkscrews to move toward its final destination.
It seems that everyone has been wondering about how sperm actually moves around once it’s been, uh, released, because further studies have revealed that it doesn’t exactly swim like an eel.
Described as corkscrewing like “playful otters,” sperm apparently does not swim in a streamline, but moves in circular motions so that the tail can create enough force to propel itself to its destination.
Just to give a quick biology lesson, sperm is made up of a head, body and tail. The head holds the nucl…
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