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6 comments to "Rough Beetle Sex."
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Jimbo
June 12th, 2007 at
8:03 am
I thought those were invented by the French! :p
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Ali S.
June 12th, 2007 at
12:15 pm
I can’t believe this would be useful on any evolutionary scale, then again, it might be just something beetles think are kinky.
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Alex
June 12th, 2007 at
3:01 pm
From Neatorama’s own 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits:
Here’s chivalry for you: the male bedbugs don’t even bother with the female’s sex organs. Instead, a male bedbug uses its scimitar-like sexual organ to impale the female bedbug’s body and deposit his sperm!
Scientists even have a cute name for this sort of thing: “traumatic insemination.” Ouch!
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Denita TwoDragons
June 12th, 2007 at
3:20 pm
*cringe* Owie…owie…owie…owie…
–TwoDragons
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Darwin
June 13th, 2007 at
1:58 am
The reason why it’s useful on an evolutionary scale is that it impregnates the female and destroys any possibility that another male will be able to impregnate her later. Thus, only the first male beetle’s genes will be passed on. Nasty stuff, really.
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Gellner
June 13th, 2007 at
3:04 pm
For more information on this, look up “the red queen”. Matt Ridley wrote a fantastic book of the same title, which attempts to explain the phenomenon of Y and X chromosomes “competing” against each other.
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