blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/22/kinkiness-beyond-kinky/

"There comes a time in every science writer’s career when one must write about glass duck vaginas and explosive duck penises."

In a previous post: http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_nature/441629.html#cutid1 , we've seen fungi could have much more than two sexes.

However, the opposite exists also: Mycelia sterilia. No reproduction is known, no type of spore has been observed yet. There's no sexuality known for ( Read more... )

You're getting up close and personal with your lover, or perhaps you're in your fertile time and strolling the office. Your lover, or the guy a few cubicles down makes this face. How do you feel ( Read more... )

Because you wanted more Top Ten Lists

The Top Ten List of Alternative SexualitiesNow this is a post that really deserves the Mature Content LJ tags. And I'm including sexual behaviour, adaptations, reproductive genetics, and everything else under the wide heading of Sex. I probably won't cover much merely heterosexual happywriggles that use ( Read more... )

Because one of the commentators on the Katedickery post encouraged me to do so...

The Top Ten List of Animal DickeryKeep in mind that this list is completely subjective - not only do my own prejudices show, but these species are incapable of ethical judgement anyway. They exist in a moral vacuum where being an Utter Bastard is a perfectly valid ( Read more... )

But it's awesome enough that I bet it gets posted anyway.

Epic humpback whale battle filmed

It is the greatest animal battle on the planet, and it has finally been caught on camera.A BBC natural history crew has filmed the "humpback whale heat run", where 15m long, 40 tonne male whales fight it out to mate with even larger females ( Read more... )

So gay elephants are funny, but gay people are terrible. So says my mom. Sigh.

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Funny documentary explaining the mating habits of Leopard slugs.
Holy crap it scared the hell out of me

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From the Discover Magazine Blog:The Gouldian finch female has a neat trick for maximizing her offspring’s chance of survival: If she mates with a male who is a poor match for her genetically, she increases the proportion of male chicks in the resulting brood. In a new study, researchers say they’ve found unprecedented evidence that these birds can ( Read more... )