 Aribeth says: 6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes. 7 How do we know this? German primatologist Dana Pfefferle watched a group of macaques, counting the females’ yells and the males’ pelvic thrusts. She says this work is “quite weird, but it’s science.” 8 Here in the US of A, that kind of stuff ends up on YouTube. 9 Because Barry White sounds terrible underwater: Fish can produce a variety of noises with their bones, teeth, and gas bladders. Grant Gilmore of Estuarine Coastal and Ocean Science Inc. says that male fish probably use some of these sounds to woo females. 10 The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis with four heads, but only two fit into the female at once. 11 The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there. 12 Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammal, fish, reptile, bird, and even invertebrate. 13 My two dads: When a male goose courts another male goose, a female sometimes slips in and mates with both males. Later, the male partners share paternal duties. 14 Some seagulls practice lesbian mating, although the eggs that result from their liaisons are sterile. 15 Biologists at the University of California at San Francisco have found that male fruit flies exposed to high levels of alcohol become hypersexual and try to court practically anything with wings, including other male fruit flies. Eventually the revelry turns into a dysfunctional orgy, with “a chain of males cha... Interesting. I identify with the spiny anteater, as many will do. I suppose it is a sort of memorial evolutionary atavism, a collision of contemporary cultural framing of desire with less plastic neurocircuitry embedded in the primitive collective hippocampal reservoir of our biological ancestry. BTW i do query the point about the white-fronted parrot's behavioural divergence from homo sapiens: recent data from longitudinal studies conducted in Budapest and Wisconsin suggest that it is cultural (learned) factors which mask the manifestation of basic genetic mating behaviour (though it is true, of course, that such behaviour became a part of primitive biosemiotic cultures among cortex-enhanced populations). Drunken gang-banging fruit flies  6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.So that's what all the noise has been about. Ha ha. Great great clip. I love its tone of poking fun out of sex and not taking it too seriously - unless you are not getting enough. Ha ha So that's what all the noise has been about.  The secret is out! I read that even amongst cuttlefish certain females have the It-factor and are courted, feted and feited to the exclusion of others. Damn, if a cuttlefish can have it, why can't I?  Fantastic article Aribeth. Truly interesting. Thanks. “It is here that the mating habits of the white-fronted parrot and Homo sapiens diverge.” Are you sure? I'll throw in a couple of fish for the penguin lap dancers. |
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