Bats mate behind the Detroit Lions bench during a preseason game against Buffalo in Orchard Park, N.Y.
Photo: David Duprey / AP (via SFGate: Day in Pictures)
04
Sep
bird's do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.
you and me baby, let's do it. . .like they do on the discovery channel.
16
Nov
![thedailywhat:
BAMF of the Day: The animal with the largest testicles? Nope, it isn’t you. Researchers at the University of Derby have bestowed that title on the lowly tuberous bushcricket, whose cojones make up 14% of its body mass.
From Science Daily:
Yet the research team also discovered that large testes did not necessarily relate to a larger amount of sperm produced — which goes against traditional thinking in the science world. […]
Dr [James] Gilbert said: “Traditionally it has been pretty safe to assume that when females are promiscuous, males use monstrously-sized testicles to deliver huge numbers of sperm to swamp the competition — even in primates. Our study shows that we have to rethink this assumption. It looks as though the testes may be that big simply to allow males to mate repeatedly without their sperm reserves being exhausted.”
Giggity.
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BAMF of the Day: The animal with the largest testicles? Nope, it isn’t you. Researchers at the University of Derby have bestowed that title on the lowly tuberous bushcricket, whose cojones make up 14% of its body mass.
From Science Daily:
Yet the research team also discovered that large testes did not necessarily relate to a larger amount of sperm produced — which goes against traditional thinking in the science world. […]
Dr [James] Gilbert said: “Traditionally it has been pretty safe to assume that when females are promiscuous, males use monstrously-sized testicles to deliver huge numbers of sperm to swamp the competition — even in primates. Our study shows that we have to rethink this assumption. It looks as though the testes may be that big simply to allow males to mate repeatedly without their sperm reserves being exhausted.”
Giggity.
[sciencedaily.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
02
Nov
And we have a winner.
the sperm whale, as with all other species of the leviathan, but unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an esau and a jacob:—a contingency provided for …in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend upwards from that. when by chance these precious parts in a nursing whale are cut by the hunter’s lance, the mother’s pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolor the sea for rods. the milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted
From Moby Dick, Herman Melville
10
Sep
less gestation and more selection but still an interesting article
02
Jun
03
Mar
Recommended: the video of the elephant.
14
Feb
bb shark!!!!! one of eight school sharks born when their momma got bit in the stomach.
14
Feb
bb shark
14
Feb
GET IT, GIRL
