Cricket Has World's Biggest Testicles

nationalgeographic ^ | November 9, 2010 | Christine Dell'Amore

[JoeProBono]

The new title for world's biggest testicles (relative to body weight) goes to the tuberous bushcricket, a type of katydid, according to a new study.

The sperm-producing organs account for 14 percent of the body mass of males of this bushcricket species. The previous record holder's testicles—belonging to the fruit fly Drosophila bifurca—tipped the scales at about 11 percent of its body mass.

"I was amazed by the size of the testes—they seemed to take up the entire abdomen," said study leader Karim Vahed, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Derby in the U.K.

[JoeProBono]

[Yo-Yo]

That’s just nuts!

[wireman]

So I suppose “I’m hung like a cricket” will be a new pickup line...

[sodpoodle]

So which comedian-entomologist named the fruit fly???

[humblegunner]

And as a striking contrast, none of the big-balled crickets finds it needful to post a blog.

Coincidence? I think not.

[JoeProBono]

[library user]

The guy in the pic looks like he’s enjoying himself a little too much.

[GQuagmire]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUuyzQDmjY

[Gaffer]

I saw an elephant in a Thai zoo back in the late 60s....that sucker’s junk was dragging the ground (let’s say while not aroused).....impressive...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Baseball has much bigger testicles than cricket.

[daku]

In China they’re called “clackets”

[mountn man]

[wireman]

"Tuberous Bushcricket???"

Hmm.

[Yo-Yo]

"You wish for what?!?

[Tijeras_Slim]

So I suppose “I’m hung like a cricket” will be a new pickup line...

Plus you gotta say it by rubbing your legs together.

[paulycy]

I've never spent much time looking at cricket balls.

[JoeProBono]

[lormand]

LOL!

[JoeProBono]

[mountn man]

All I can think of is “splinters”.