Posted on 11/10/2010 7:36:39 AM PST by balls
Scientists have found a bushcricket species with testicles that account for up to 14% of its body weight.
It is the animal with the biggest testicles in relation to its body weight, they write in Biology Letters.
In a study of their mating strategies, the team found they release only small amounts of sperm at each mating.
That suggests the big testes are for mating with many females, not producing competitive volumes of sperm for each encounter.
Significant research across the animal kingdom has shown that male testicle size is correlated to the degree of promiscuity within a given species.
The more partners a female has, the larger the male's testicles are likely to be.
Larger testicles produce more sperm, and a long-standing assumption has been that a kind of numbers game is played out within the female to fertilise her eggs.
The male that provides a higher amount of sperm in that scenario has a higher likelihood of fathering offspring.
Many experiments in vertebrate species - including in our closest primate relatives - have borne out that idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
So did I! LOL!
So did I! LOL!
Right, I expected this was about BDS in reaction to his book tour.
For an adult male weighing 300 lbs that’d be testicles weighing in at 42 lbs ~ kinda’ like that giant bore at the state fare eh!
I read the headline - thought it was another hit piece on GWB
Yeah, like he caught some social disease by running around with a player from some women’s cricket team...
Uh oh. Now you’ll get some guy bragging that he’s hung like a fruit fly.
Nuts!
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[CHORUS:]
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I’ve got big balls
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And they’re fancy big balls
And he’s got big balls
And she’s got big balls
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[CHORUS]
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Contrast the obamacricket species with no testicles but a mouth that accounts for over 50% of the body weight.
Yes, I was also wondering if the headline writer was playing games with our former President. But I checked it out, and apparently neither the headline writer nor the reporter nor the proofreader managed to spell it right.
The British spelling, at least, is with a hyphen:
“The speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) is a flightless species of bush-cricket that occurs across most of Europe.”
So did I....
And yet, no one knows where to start cutting out needless spending in all these govts????
Get a clue! Who cares about the size of Jiminy Cricket’s privates?
We need some ordinary clear thinking people making spending decisions.
Are there any humans whose testicles account for 14% of their body weight? I mean besides Dick Cheney, of course.
testicle talk
I heard this years ago..and there's a lot more I can't remember..
{ crickets }
Elephantiasis, a parasitic infection, can cause grossly enlarged testicles.
I’m not linking to any pictures.
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