Posted on 07/07/2009 8:17:38 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Male seahorses have a clear agenda when it comes to selecting a mating partner: to increase their reproductive success. By being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have more and bigger eggs, as well as bigger offspring, according to Beat Mattle and Tony Wilson from the Zoological Museum at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Seahorses have a unique mode of reproduction: male pregnancy. Male seahorses provide all post-fertilization parental care, yet despite the high levels of paternal investment, they have long been thought to have conventional sex roles, with females choosing mating partners and males competing for their attention. However, clutch, egg and offspring size all increase with female body size in seahorses, suggesting that males may obtain fecundity benefits by mating with large-bodied females.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
And scientists report that female lobsters really go for BIG male lobsters.
Hey, you can look it up! and pass the butter!!
So does the president.
Baby’s got back, and they love it!
Hey! I can see the nips...
Jamie Foxx used to say “I like my women BIG. When we walk down the street together, I want us to look like a #10”.
He did used to be funny.
"I usedta breed those big male seahorses to those big female seahorses."
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