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During an excited discussion on monogamy with some of my high school turn e-friends, the question finally arrived at "Mallards, really? What other animals are monogamous, Jean?" To which I replied the typical answer of many birds, the prairie vole (I don't exactly know what this is except that it's studied quite frequently) and shrimp. I don't know why I know this other than it does make for great party conversation. Pressed on the shrimp answer (more specifically: "Shrimp??? C'mon, chimpy. You're one of a billion plankton floating in a cloud in the ocean about to eaten by a baleen whale and you're gonna stick with ONE other crustacean? How could a shrimp even FIND their life-mate if a strong current separated them? I would like to respecfully call bull-shit"), I was forced to widipedia my retort as back up. Yes, shrimp are monogamous, but what I didn't know was the type of shrimp. It turns out they aren't the running wild and free type. These shrimp dwell in a sponge, sort of an oceanic subdivision. Most interestingly is the their tendency of inbreeding. One can only wonder if they also are talented banjo players and squeal like a piggy.