How do sperms know when to stop trying to fertilise an egg?

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I’m talking about humans specifically here. During school I was always shown animations that showed many sperm swimming to an egg, and then when the first sperm started entering the egg (don’t even know how they do that, do they eat through?), the other sperm just stopped trying and gave up. How do the other sperm know? Are they sentient? What’s stopping loads of sperm going into the same egg? What would happen if 100 sperm went into the egg at once?

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sperm have to find a key to let them through the shell first. the first one to enter immediately triggers a wave that removes all other keys from outside the wgg

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