Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race

Swimming in groups helps sperm stay the course in the reproductive tract

bull sperm swimming in various directions

Bull sperm that cluster together in groups of two or more swim straighter and more directly than individual sperm on their travels to fertilize a female egg cell.

S. Phuyal, S.S. Suarez and C.-K. Tung/Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2022

Even sperm gotta stick together.