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The paper "Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time" on PlosOne illustrates the utility of a journal that accepts papers regardless of subject area or impact. Although its topic is intriguing to some, it would not have fit well into a traditional journal, particularly because it does not experimentally explain the phenomenon it documents.
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Article here: http://www.plosone.org/article...
- Melinda Owens
"Female bats often lick their mate's penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male's penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina. Males never withdrew their penis when it was licked by the mating partner. A positive relationship exists between the length of time that the female licked the male's penis during copulation and the duration of copulation." That doesn't really sound like fellatio as we know it.
- ⓞnor
The dictionaries I've consulted give a definition for fellatio that's something like, "oral stimulation of the penis." What the bats are doing qualifies under that definition. It's just that most human women are not flexible enough to perform the act the way the bats do it.
- Melinda Owens
This was the first time I've felt disgusted when reading something while eating food.
- niniane
Very pretty Cell cover ;) This is a color-coded functional map of neuronal responses in the mouse midbrain of a particular mutant mouse after visual stimulation. http://download.cell.com/images...
The abstract is here: http://www.cell.com/abstrac...
- Melinda Owens
Tiny monkeys! Marmoset there'd be days like this: http://www.nature.com/news... . From an article in Nature accompanying a paper announcing the creation of transgenic marmosets.
Not so much for the picture but the description: - http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art...
Notes from seminar: People from this lab claimed they have cured colorblindness in two colorblind squirrel monkeys using gene therapy. If this is true, that means that fixing colorblindness (probably) does not require brain rewiring. Also, watching squirrel monkeys headbutt a screen is adorable. - http://www.journalofvision.org/7...
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Link is a meeting abstract.
- Melinda Owens
this is awesome.
- Tudor Bosman
Awesome description of an artist: (Painting by Emily Jan, an F1 progeny of two Drosophila geneticists.) See description of cover painting on the current issue of Neuron (www.neuron.org).
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Calamari sushi, prepared without thumbs: http://www.plosone.org/article...
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