Description
Intimacy in the natural world boasts a wild and memorable array of reproductive techniques and strategies! Join us for a unique Valentine’s Day inspired hike on our trails to discover, discuss and puzzle over the reproductive biology of our most common animal, plant and fungal species. Learn the truth with ‘real talk’ about courtship rituals, mating techniques and survival strategies. Who mates suspended on a high wire of slime? How does moss reproduce, and can we see it? Did you know there are snakes here that bear live young? Wait, there are fungi with over 20,000 sexes? Oh yes. Nature’s only rule is: there are no rules.
After the hike, we’ll head on back inside to our beautiful and spacious Great Hall for a happy hour and raise our glasses to the beautiful complexity of evolutionary biology. We’ll have a delicious happy hour assortment of nibbles for you of the sweet and savory variety, including an aphrodisiac mocktail (appetizers and mocktail included in ticket price). Our naturalists will have a display of books to show you from a selection of authors, scientists and sociologists to continue your education in the field of sexual adaptation, strategy and animal behavior.
