Banana Slugs Love Themselves
The banana slug is a hermaphrodite. A hermaphrodite means the slug carries male and female sex organs. And by “love themselves” we mean they typically like mating with themselves. That is a trait that might be helpful for every endangered species.
Having this capability doesn’t indicate that they only mate with themselves. The banana slug prefers mating with others, but sometimes it comes with a steep cost. One of the slugs sometimes chews off the male private part afterward.
