RE: The Awards Listing v 0.5 & Turkey hunting

Then there are insects like bees and ants where the queen mates early on
in
her life and produces viable eggs for years...

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Fulton [SMTP:beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au]
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 4:06 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: The Awards Listing v 0.5 & Turkey hunting
> 
> G'day Jon,
> 
> >	However, studies have been done that show that the female lays
> >fertile eggs for the whole mating season after only being mated by
the
> >tom ONCE!  The tom's sperm is viable for the whole month!  What a 
> >scam!  I bet nobody's told the female turkeys yet.
> 
> Yes but was it really his, many birds now turn out to cuckold their
> 'mates'
> on a regular basis...
> 
> Besides one month is low compares to say skinks where it can be 6
months
> right through to deep sea fish (like the angler fish) where the male
> latches onto the female once he's found her and then is absorbed and
> becomes little more than a bag ot testes hanging off her side... now
> that's
> committment! ;)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
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