Smart chicks duck sex with 'tough guys'

IOL (South Africa) ^ | 7/31/03

[LibWhacker]

London - Weedier, less aggressive, males are the first choice of females in some species, including coho salmon and quail, the New Scientist has reported.

"People just expect the dominant guy to win but females learn through personal experience that such males can hurt them," says Alex Ophir of Canada's McMaster University.

Ophir proved the point by observing Japanese quail. Female quail watched a fight between two males then were put in a cage with the combatants. Virgin females preferred the winner but the females with some sexual experience tended to choose the loser.

Female coho salmon were also more likely to chose males known as jacks which stop growing earlier and are smaller, which is perhaps a sign of maturity and quality according to evolutionary biologist Steve Shuster of Northern Arizona University.

"The females may also prefer to avoid the physical abuse of mating with aggressive males," the magazine added.

[Commander8]

I have an IQ of 148 and I can bench 400lbs. I just can't win.

[steveo]

'Yeah right' alert.

[Dooderbutt]

Let's just say I'm not a salmon or a quail. Smart and strong (and a conservative to boot??) *sigh*

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

"Female coho salmon were more attracted to the less menacing "metrosexual" male salmon."

[Nonstatist]

More feminist BS propaganda; lets not forget the bisexual monkey groupings in Southern Africa, either!. .

Just saying it happens to fish is not going to make it happen is "real life". You know... Real life!

[bedolido]

I have an IQ of 148 and I can bench 400lbs. I just can't win.

I have the similar numbers... similar in that, my IQ has numbers too, and I can bench press a weight that also has numbers.

I'm not even in the runner up lists

[goldstategop]

I guess there's hope for us nice guys after all.

[MineralMan]

Must be true. Otherwise, how would a Libertarian man ever find a willing partner {grinning and ducking}

[spodefly]

Weedier, less aggressive, males are the first choice of females in some species, including coho salmon and quail ...

I need to be a quail then, because females of the human persuasion certainly appear either to like muscle-bound dumb-shits or weasels with fat wallets.

[inflorida]

Hmmm..I don't think so.

[najida]

All I want is a guy who can hang sheet rock.

[Sacajaweau]

So "SMART" equates to picking a loser?? And how much sexual experience did they need to get "SMART". And how many times did they get pecked to death before they got SMART?

The dumb ones around here are the people paying for the experiments. Who the F cares!!

[lilylangtree]

From a human woman's point of view, the point is?????

[MineralMan]

"I need to be a quail then, because females of the human persuasion certainly appear either to like muscle-bound dumb-shits or weasels with fat wallets."

Some do. Some don't. Humans are funny; you can't categorize 'em. They're not quail, either, but lots of guys you might call wimpy are happily married to beautiful women and have fine families.

[Van Jenerette]

Weedier, less aggressive, males are the first choice of females in some species, including coho salmon and quail, the New Scientist has reported.

Why is it the Liberals always turn to ANIMAL studies in order to tell us humans how we should/do live our lives?

What a bunch of lefthanded-whack-jobs! Don't they understand it is our morality, not instincts, that distinguish us from the other creatures on this planet?

Should fish, dogs or perverts become our moral mentors?

[jriemer]

So why did the "smartest woman in the world" marry flabby, dumb Bill Clinton?

[Calpernia]

'77? You are still young.

[woofer]

All I want is a guy who can hang sheet rock.

I can hang it, I have hung it, but I don't do 'rock no mo'.

I don't like to share my stuff, either.

[Kennesaw]

"Virgin females preferred the winner"

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