Truth is always stranger than fiction

Barklessdog · April 25, 2008, 08:02:48 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3o2Q-YLPw&feature=email

gweimer · April 25, 2008, 08:14:33 AM

So the female spiny anteater is basically a slut?

uwe · April 25, 2008, 09:44:31 AM

Fourheaded penis? I want one too!

Dave W · April 25, 2008, 09:46:19 AM

No wonder the female anteaters are sluts.

uwe · April 25, 2008, 10:03:06 AM

Up to 11 males in a row ... and that then times 4 ...

The mind doth boggle.

OTOH, nature always compensates. Once those poor anteater couples have surmounted all those spiky quills, some reward seems in order.

TBird1958 · April 25, 2008, 10:06:47 AM

"Fourheaded penis? I want one too!"

Herr Moderator,
How can I not take this quote out of context!...........Please bring me a gay emoticon

uwe · April 25, 2008, 10:16:15 AM

How I knew that Mark would even drag these innocent little creatures into the quagmire of his cavernous mind ...

Glad he left the "eleven males in a row" comment untouched though.

TBird1958 · April 25, 2008, 10:39:18 AM

Quote from: uwe on April 25, 2008, 10:16:15 AM
How I knew that Mark would even drag these innocent little creatures into the quagmire of his cavernous mind ...

Glad he left the "eleven males in a row" comment untouched though.

You're giving me way too much to work with here! I'm trying to keep in mind this is a PG site

gweimer · April 25, 2008, 11:13:16 AM

I can just hear Mark now...."They call me Medusa..."

Dave W · April 28, 2008, 01:47:23 PM

I was just thinking...with a handy little four-headed gadget, you could come up with some great pickup lines. Problem is, as soon as you had an argument with one of your groupies, she'd shoot you with her quills.

Barklessdog · May 03, 2008, 03:59:30 AM

Here another one, seals raping penguins!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7379554.stm

QuoteThe bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.

At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin
Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear

Sexual coercion among animals is extremely common: males of many species often harass, coerce or force females of their own kind to mate, while animals are also known occasionally to harass sexually a member of a closely related species.
Harassment is common among pinnipeds, the group of animals that includes seals, fur seals, and sea lions; and occasionally it happens between related species.
Male grey seals have been known to harass and mate with female harbour seals, for example, producing hybrids.
"Sexual harassment is often more commonplace in non-monogamous mating systems, and in species where males are physically much larger than the other sex and thus physically capable of coercion or harassment," says de Bruyn.
But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian.
'Too young'
Chinstrap penguins occasionally indulge in homosexual behaviour, and adelie penguins sometimes "prostitute" themselves to get stones for nest-building; while one in seven emperor penguins will change partners from one year to the next.

sniper · May 03, 2008, 02:37:35 PM

i thought Dopey was the only one who had sex with penguins

Dave W · May 03, 2008, 03:46:58 PM

The spiny anteater video is great, it's a new discovery about them.

The BBC story about the seal and penguin is ridiculous. They're animals acting by instinct. The author tries to describe it in human terms and implies that there's something wrong with what happened. Nope. Nature doesn't conform to human ideas about sexual morality.