Posted on 05/22/2010 7:14:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono
During mating season, male topi antelope trick females with false alarms of nearby danger to boost chances for sex, a new study says.
If a female starts wandering out of a male's territory, the male will begin snorting and staring, ears pricked, at nonexistent predators.
"The female will be walking away, and the male runs in front, looks not at the female but where she's going, makes this snort, and she typically stops," said lead researcher Jakob Bro-Jørgensen of the University of Liverpool.
The researcher, who observed the topi's tricky behavior in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, noted that the males issue fake warnings only when the wandering females are in heat.
Bro-Jørgensen thinks male topi might have evolved the behavior to better their odds during the brief but intense mating season.
One day a year females are in heat, and during that period they will have sex with an average of four different mates, 11 times each.
Tricking a female into sticking around for a few extra minutes gives the buck more chances for sex and denies other males the opportunity, Bro-Jørgensen said.
These antelopes have been using my strategy for years. And they didn’t even bother to ask? :D
Never let a good crisis go to waste. And if there is no crisis, invent one.
The old “he chases her until she catches him”....
What were you "googling" for to come up with that article Joe?
“Can I buy you a drink” ?
I tried the snorting thing but it never worked for me...
"Hey, you ain't goin' nowhere, babe. That was only number four."
Human males, on the other hand, used their superior intellectual powers to invent:
to boost their chances for sex
Is this date rape? Or is the idiot who wrote this article just anther crazy liberal kook?
Is that a female lion in the bushes,or you just happy to see
me?
Well! <snort!> SOMEbody is an immediate candidate for reeducation and sensitivity training!!!
</feminist cant>
Never let a good crisis go to waste. And if there is no crisis, invent one.
Sounds like global warming and our government
"Me sooo 'horny'..."
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"when I was getting ready to leave [Bill] Ayers told me I couldn’t go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up. At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldn’t sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate’s bed and put myself on it and he ****** me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger **** me angrily while I hated myself."
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist -by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2
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