All in all, this thread is just another brick in the wall.
Words cast into the uncaring void of the internet.I don't need no posters bumping
And I don't need no mods to [thump] me.
Everything behind the Google wall
Don't think I need anything at all!
No! Don't think I need anything at all!
All in all these threads
Are all just bricks in the Wall.
inb4 "Wrong, do it again!"
edited 10th Jan '11 2:22:53 PM by BlackWolfe
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.Black Wolfe: Actually, nah it ain't.
EDIT: Why did you necro this? This is like seven months old.
EDIT: And it wasn't behind the wall in january either.
edited 21st Aug '11 1:24:06 AM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.![]()
The female lets out a jowl, but I don't know if it's out of pleasure or of pain.
The main reason why I would not want to be a female cat is actually the aggressiveness of the male, as he bites down on the female's scruff and subdues her as he's having sex.
Being bitten on the scruff is not painful, but it is dominating and subduing and that's why I wouldn't like it done to me.
edited 21st Aug '11 9:34:17 AM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.According to my lectures it's actually not a dominance thing, it's more a testing-the-waters thing. He bites the female, if she gives him a claw across the face for his troubles then he knows he should back off. If she lets him do it, full steam ahead.
But, well, I've never even owned a cat so who knows if that's true.
Be not afraid...Which means only submissive females end up being the ones to procreate.
I now have one more reason to love my human ability to copulate belly-to-belly.
edited 21st Aug '11 5:50:39 PM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.@Loni Jay: Very true. My female cat? Every once in a while, a male cat in the neighborhood will come along and bother her, she's left each and every one limping away.
The emotions of others can seem like such well guarded mysteries, people 8egin to 8elieve that's how their own emotions should 8e treated.Regarding Ducks:
I'm sure anyone would like to be a female duck as usually they are gang raped in mating season.
Not to mention the 'arms race' of spirally duck genitalia and the homosexual necrophilia that comes with discussing duck breeding.
I still have absolutely no idea how the anti-rape defenses of a female duck make sense from an evolutionary stand point.
I guess I'll figure it out in my bio class eventually.
edited 21st Aug '11 7:42:08 PM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.Hmm, I guess, but it would be much easier to mate with a female duck whose genitals are weaker, so you'd think they wouldn't develop such a mechanism.
edited 21st Aug '11 8:50:27 PM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.That's true, but seeing as sperm are 'cheaper', mating with one weak female doesn't actually decrease his chances of having surviving offspring with some other female. Females get less chances, because they can only have a small number of offspring per breeding season, so having that chance 'wasted' on inferior sperm is a bigger deal.
Be not afraid...To see whether these clockwise twists and turns would make copulation more difficult for the male, the group managed to get male ducks to unfurl their penises into glass tubes shaped like a female's vagina. The males found it difficult to evert their penises down the length of the tube – which is what the team reckons happens in the vagina.
Brennan thinks that, while the males are evolving long and flexible penises to help them force copulations, the females are using their complex vaginal anatomy to take back control over which sperm fertilises their eggs. When a female wants to mate with her chosen partner, she can make the process easier by relaxing the muscles around the vagina entrance.
Also her is a link to the paper regarding the Necrophilia in ducks(NSFW I'd guess?):
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)
edited 10th Sep '11 2:02:17 PM by IanExMachina
By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!

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But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.