Well Endowed Fish Get the Girls

LiveScience.com ^ | 11 May 2005 | Robert Roy Britt

[ElkGroveDan]

Your tax dollars at work.

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[Samwise]

It's not the size of the wand, it's the power of the magician.

[camle]

one wonders about the mindset that would spend time and dollars measuring the sex organs of animals...

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

This is a thread that I swore was yours pissant. But, alas, I was wrong.

[mattdono]

Really, where do we even start with this thread? It really doesn't matter because it's going downhill (I'm sure) by the 5th post.

[RexBeach]

It's not the meat, it's the motion.

[Political Junkie Too]

And they called it... Guppy love...
Oh, I guess they'll never know.

-PJ

[mlc9852]

Yeah, who funded this "study" anyway? They could have gone down to the local bar on ladies' night and done it for free!

[bikerman]

I often wondered why I couldn't swim as fast as others.

[Old Professer]

"We found that in predator-free environments gonopodia size was larger, as there is minimal cost for large genitalia in that environment,"

Now, all the little bastards have to do is move to a safer neighborhood.

[Junior]

Nothing fishy about this. Size does matter.

[RayBob]

How long 'til there's a "Smiling Bob" post and something about "living large"?

[Alberta's Child]

The studs with larger gonopodia, which is what scientists call male fish sex organs, can't swim as fast as their less impressive counterparts, so they're more likely to get eaten by predators.

So that explains why I'm such a slow runner . . . I keep tripping over it.

[pissant]

And how is it you are on EVERY sex thread, pissant's or not?!

[AppyPappy]

So that explains why I'm such a slow runner . . . I keep tripping over it.

Which is fine unless you are a woman.

[GSlob]

Well, were there a link with something useful (like size, rate of growth or meatiness of carp from fish farms, for example) then looking for such possible links would indeed be appropriate expenditure.

[EternalVigilance]

After all, some female fish prefer mates with larger sex organs, a new study finds.

In a separate study, researchers found that 93.8% of female fish regularly lie about such preferences...

;-)

[cjshapi]

Yeah...and sometimes well endowed girls get the fish!

[day10]

because it's going downhill

Interesting that you use that term. A fellow Freeper and I have, on occasion, discussed the need for a "Downhill Fast" Ping List for stories just like this. Any volunteers?