# Species with greatest ejaculate **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 3, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141 "2008-02-03T21:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/21 "2008-02-04T20:39:26Z")
Pigs, I’ve heard, pump in a large amount of sperm. Pigs! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/22 "2008-02-04T20:53:55Z")
[QUOTE=Gymnopithys] Pigs, I’ve heard, pump in a large amount of sperm. Pigs! 😉 [/QUOTE] I read somewhere they have the lengthiest orgasms as well. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/23 "2008-02-04T22:01:17Z")
I think wild boars have corkscrew penises. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/24 "2008-02-04T22:42:52Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] I think wild boars have corkscrew penises. [/QUOTE] “I think”. Way to keep your cover, Katherine the Great. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/25 "2008-02-04T22:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] It’s important to have a job that makes a difference. [/QUOTE] Wow - nice “Clerks” reference! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/26 "2008-02-04T23:25:05Z")
I think most of these answers are forgetting this part of the OP’s question: [QUOTE=Shalmanese] as a proportion of body mass? [/QUOTE] Elephants & sperm whales produce a large quantity of ejaculate, but they are also massively big animals. So the proportion is likely to be rather small. I’d think the answer would be some very small creature, on a proportion basis. [If the OP had included plants, they would probably win – they are more efficient than animals at this. The common garden tomato would be a good contender – the edible parts are the reproductive seed of the plant, and over a season they grow much more produce than the weight of the plant itself. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/27 "2008-02-05T00:27:21Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] That’s what instantly popped in my head when I read the thread title. I was about to say, “Well, I haven’t exactly _sampled_ all of them” [/QUOTE] The days not over yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/28 "2008-02-05T01:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] “I think”. Way to keep your cover, Katherine the Great. [/QUOTE] Самый лучший смех сегодня. Спасибо. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/29 "2008-02-07T17:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] Самый лучший смех сегодня. Спасибо. [/QUOTE] I can’t understand your crazy Moon language. ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/30 "2008-02-07T17:38:03Z")
According to an article in Nature (Nov.8.2007). the males of Drosophila mojavensis looses 2-3% of its body weight with each eajaculation - and they mate several times a day. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/31 "2008-02-07T18:02:01Z")
Great Tick reference, **Derleth**! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/32 "2008-02-08T01:57:48Z")
And then one can erect a statue of the species and try to attract a male for a donation, but you cannot guarantee who shows up. See pics of a moose mounting a bison statue in, according to another source, Big Sky, Montana., but Colorado has staked a claim. > **[Moose Mounts Bison Statue](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/statutory-moose/)** > > Photograph shows a moose mounting a statue of a bison. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/33 "2008-02-08T06:34:17Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] Semen is collected from almost all domesticated animals, for use in artificial insemination. I would be rather surprised if this were not also the case for elephants. Tha apparatus is a bit more sophisticated than a magazine full of naked elephant cows and a bucket, though. [/QUOTE] I now understand why elephants evolved with trunks. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141/34 "2008-02-08T07:11:16Z")
My vote goes to the [Ostracod](http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2794) > [@](#): > > Most ostracods are tiny marine creatures, but they have the largest sperm to body ratio in the natural world - up to ten times their body size. Those with the largest sperm have needed to devise a special system to enable them to fertilise a female. > > “They have to use a type of bicycle pump to eject the sperm into the female,” Seviter says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/species-with-greatest-ejaculate/436141.md?page=1)