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Dancing Spiders and Cross Dressing Birds - The Wild Sex Merry XXXmas Marathon Continues

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Rounding out our marathon of 'Wild Sex', we have episodes that focus on mating dances and 'cross dressing'. The dance episode was one of my favorites to shoot, as I was reminded of my days as a ballerina.

Enjoy!


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Carin Bondar is a biologist, writer and film-maker with a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia. Find Dr. Bondar online at www.carinbondar.com, on twitter @drbondar or on her facebook page: Dr. Carin Bondar – Biologist With a Twist.

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