Comment by Dorn koul on Galactic Navy Officer

@Dorn koul It really depends on how much research the mages in question have done. Including both observations of animals, and dissections of human and animal.

A couple scientists in the 18th century put little pants on male frogs to study fertility. They observed that frogs in pants didn't produce fertilized eggs. But when the scientists took the liquid that had been released onto the frogs' pants and mixed it with unfertilized eggs, the eggs became fertilized.

Mages, alchemists, and other researchers in these works are capable of doing that -probably especially because the whole idea seems bonkers.