Asian Elephant And House Mouse (IMAGE)

Stockholm University

Asian Elephant And House Mouse

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The sperm of the Asian elephant has the shortest sperm relative to its body size, whereas the house mouse (Mus musculus) has the longest. Humans and elephants have sperm of roughly the same length, less than half the size of mouse sperm.

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