"Barnacles can radically change the size and shape of their penises to fight the waves and have sex.
Here is the challenge for the tiny hard bodies: Barnacles want to mate but are permanently bound to whatever rock or hull they once latched onto. Given that, they have evolved the longest penises of any creature for their size — up to eight times their body length — to seek out and have sex with their neighbors. (Most barnacles are hermaphrodites that alternate between male and female sexes over time.)
But large penises can be a problem, what with waves crashing down on the surfaces where these crustaceans often dwell. A too-long penis could flop around uselessly in such turbulence, drastically cutting down a barnacle's chances for procreation."
Every time I tune into The Jeremy Kyle show and see an obnoxious, fat, ugly female who has a brood of ugly little ankle biters, demanding a DNA test off the feckless, drug dealing smack head of a boyfriend, I ask my self how the act of 'union' came about! Or rather I don't ask, as the thought would sear my brain and make me sick...
Every time I tune into The Jeremy Kyle show and see an obnoxious, fat, ugly female who has a brood of ugly little ankle biters, demanding a DNA test off the feckless, drug dealing smack head of a boyfriend, I ask my self how the act of 'union' came about! Or rather I don't ask, as the thought would sear my brain and make me sick...
"So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female."...
No, not really. As long as they don't stick to the bottom of the boat you are using. That's where anti-fouling (a paint you apply to the bottom of a boat below or just above the water line) plays its part.
But how does he get the barbed penis out? Wouldn't there be some sort of ratchet action. Penis goes forward and barb disengages. Hedgehog slips back a little and barb re-engages. So hedgehog can move forwards but not backwards. Result: hedgehogs rapidly become extinct.
an unhealthy interest in animals doing it with other animals. ugh. cue rhythmic squelching sounds. bbc sound effect catalogue lp record no 1869. english wildlife ambient sexual activity ........
an unhealthy interest in animals doing it with other animals. ugh. cue rhythmic squelching sounds. bbc sound effect catalogue lp record no 1869. english wildlife ambient sexual activity ........
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"Barnacles can radically change the size and shape of their penises to fight the waves and have sex.
Here is the challenge for the tiny hard bodies: Barnacles want to mate but are permanently bound to whatever rock or hull they once latched onto. Given that, they have evolved the longest penises of any creature for their size — up to eight times their body length — to seek out and have sex with their neighbors. (Most barnacles are hermaphrodites that alternate between male and female sexes over time.)
But large penises can be a problem, what with waves crashing down on the surfaces where these crustaceans often dwell. A too-long penis could flop around uselessly in such turbulence, drastically cutting down a barnacle's chances for procreation."
Now we know that size does matter!
"So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female."...
...comes to mind.
No, not really. As long as they don't stick to the bottom of the boat you are using. That's where anti-fouling (a paint you apply to the bottom of a boat below or just above the water line) plays its part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fouling_paint
The female lays it's quills flat so the male can hop on but the quills are very slippy and the male has to bite the neck of the female to hold on.
Possibly also something about a barbed penis
I've yet to see hedgehogs stick to the bottom of a boat.
Anyway, they are dead cuddly and should breed a bit more. Maybe.
ETA. I'm a barnacle murderer with a paint scraper along the hull of a boat.
I know. We should really talk about how pond life reproduces.
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