Posted on 03/03/2009 4:56:26 PM PST by posterchild
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.
The lizards not only avoid fights but gain access to females under the nose of their more macho rivals, the South African and Australian researchers discovered.
They found that young male Augrabies flat lizards delayed displaying the extravagant coloration of sexually-mature males until they were able to defend themselves adequately.
"Experienced males will chase and bite their young rivals," said associate professor Martin Whiting of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand.
"By delaying the onset of colour to a more convenient period, these males, termed she-males, are making the best of a bad situation." Australian National University associate professor Scott Keogh said opting to become transvestites for a period offered young males a dual advantage.
"They can avoid potentially dangerous bouts with dominant males and still have access to normally inaccessible females," he said.
But, as with large hands and an Adam's apple in the human world, there is a flaw in the lizards' transvestite transformation.
Dominant males can detect transvestite's male hormones with their sensitive tongues, even if they are taken in by their female appearance.
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I thought at first that was a new term for gay male hookers in Thailand.
So this explains the whole metrosexual thing, eh?
At a glance it looked like ladyboy libtards.
Well, that's a relief...
That lady tastes like a dude.
Transvestite lizards making out with fag hag females.
I have seen women who love homosexuals. I guess they feel safe with them.
That’s a man lizard, baby!
Y’know, I’m wondering if Arnold didn’t use a variation of this trick in CA. Was he really a Democrat girly-man disguised as a Republican stud?
Just as marxists hide their wealth and income from other marxists.
The stupidity of the left never ceases to amaze me. Trying to gin up support for homos by using lizard activity. This is just mind boggling!
I thought it said lazyboy lizard so I was thinking of life’s journey for a single man, from lounge lizard to lazyboy lizard.
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