Learning Media Arabic - Reading Practice - 18
Subject: Science & Technology
Estimated ILR Level: 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/sciencean...
Rough translation:
Jellyfish use sting cells for mating
As the old joke goes: “How does a hedgehog have sex?” The answer: “Carefully.” Perhaps this joke can be applied to jellyfish, famous for their painful sting.
In actuality, jellyfish don’t care about the issue of mating, since a lot of species don’t split into females and males.
Even when they do divide into females and males, they mate in the simplest manner possible, with the males and females releasing their sperm and eggs into the water in huge numbers. Most of them come to nothing, but enough of them meet up to form a new generation.
But some species of box jellyfish are more daring, as the females and males mate in a way that is similar to the way we humans do, where the male launches his sperm inside the body of the female.
نكتة joke
إناث وذكور females and males
حيوانات المنوية sperm (pl.)
بويضات eggs
ضاع هباء to come to nothing
تكوين creating
جيل generation
أكثر إقداماً more daring
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