Archive for June, 2011
How did I not know this about porcupines until now? How is this not common knowledge? Maybe because it’s disgusting. When a female porcupine is on heat, the bloke ambles around smelling places where she has had a slash and apparently that gets him going. At that point, the pair engage in a ‘comical dance’. [ READ MORE ]
The ichneumon wasp is a deeply unpleasant character. Deeply, deeply unpleasant. No-one likes wasps. No-one sees the point in them. But after reading what follows, this particular wasp will slump even further in your estimation. The ichneumon injects its eggs into a victim, which is usually a caterpillar. It then paralyses the caterpillar and slowly [ READ MORE ]
It doesn’t seem fair that the creature with the largest penis relative to its body size should be a hermaphrodite. That’s just greedy. Barnacles have giant schlongs on account of the fact that they don’t leave their shells to mate, meaning the old chap has to venture out on his own. They also have testes [ READ MORE ]
This is a type of salamander. Would you say it was lacking something? If you think it lacks arms and legs, you’d be right, but that isn’t its main deficiency. This particular salamander has omitted to grow something else that most of us find rather important. This is the lungless salamander and that is not [ READ MORE ]
This creature doesn’t look particularly weird and it’s quite well-known as well, so why feature it? Well, I want you to spend a little bit of time giving some serious thought the dung beetle’s diet. This is an animal that voluntarily consumes excrement. Eating faeces is, by anyone’s standards, utterly disgusting. You are completely depraved [ READ MORE ]