May 11, 2005
FINDING NEMO –THE UNCENSORED VERSION
Females like males well endowed, fish study reveals (Chris Wattie, National Post, May 11th, 2005)
Size does matter, at least to the female mosquitofish.Researchers have spent four years showing racy videos to the three-centimetre-long fish, native to the Caribbean and southern United States, and concluded that what really gets the female mosquitofish's attention is a large reproductive organ.
And that, says biologist Brian Langerhans, of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., turns out to be at least as important as escaping the small fish's many voracious predators.
"There's a whole other paradigm in the evolution of male genitalia," he said in a telephone interview. "Females prefer to mate with males having a large gonopodium [sexual organ]. The problem is that males with a large genital organ ... are more vulnerable to predation.
"You become more attractive to females, but you also become more conspicuous and more vulnerable to predators. So there's a trade-off."
Surely evolutionists are getting a little desperate when they start basing their just so stories on the plots of low budget porn films.
I feel obliged to point out that the above is also the plot of high-end porn films as well.
Posted by: Brandon at May 11, 2005 4:34 PMThat's odd, I haven't found myself "vulnerable to predation."
Oh, wait, they were talking about the fish.
(I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress)
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at May 11, 2005 7:00 PMHome of the Whopper.
Posted by: at May 11, 2005 7:51 PMAs far as sea life with impressive endowments go, these fish got nothin'. Male barnicles, because they and the females are immobile, have penises several times their own body length, so they can reach the nearest available lady.
Long Dong Silver, indeed.
Posted by: Tom at May 11, 2005 9:06 PMHave you all noticed how this story goes from fish to genitalia generally to "you" in just three paragraphs?
Posted by: Peter B at May 12, 2005 6:53 AMA few years ago I had read a book identified as the authoritative history of Brazil by some Brazillian guy whose name escapes me and which I am not about to look up for the likes of this comment. This professor held that rapid cultural penetration (there you go again)of Brazil by the Portugeuse was facilitated by the enthusiasm with which native Brazillian women received the Portugeuse explorers, those gentlemen being so much better equipped in this regard than the local men.
Thus we see how cultural evolution--people making choices and adapting to circumstances--is the trasformative factor.
Posted by: Lou Gots at May 13, 2005 8:00 AMA few years ago I had read a book identified as the authoritative history of Brazil by some Brazillian guy whose name escapes me and which I am not about to look up for the likes of this comment. This professor held that rapid cultural penetration (there you go again)of Brazil by the Portugeuse was facilitated by the enthusiasm with which native Brazillian women received the Portugeuse explorers, those gentlemen being so much better equipped in this regard than the local men.
Thus we see how cultural evolution--people making choices and adapting to circumstances--is the trasformative factor.
Posted by: Lou Gots at May 13, 2005 8:02 AM